The drive home was a blur. Mark had confessed to seeing another woman. I pulled the car over to the side of the road, the gravel crunching beneath the tires. I sat there, staring blankly ahead. My hands were clenched so tightly on the steering wheel that my knuckles were white. The world around me seemed to be spinning. I inhaled deeply, trying to gather myself, but the air felt thin and insubstantial. I felt this incredible sense of emptiness, a void that was expanding rapidly, consuming everything. I slumped back against the seat, feeling completely and utterly... undone.

Emotion: shaken

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.72 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.86

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion shaken. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 shaken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the shaken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the shaken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.351
unable0.269
focus0.266
😞0.258
다시0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.769
la-0.579
a-0.375
happy-0.292
"-0.290