The old house was filled with shadows and whispers of the past. She had found a box of old books in the attic, hoping to find something interesting. Then, between the pages of a forgotten novel, a single photograph slipped out. A photograph of a woman, a stranger. On the back, a few words were written, a cryptic message.

She took a step back, her breath catching in her throat. The air felt thick, heavy. She found herself staring at the picture, unable to look away. A sudden sense of dread washed over her. She dropped the book back into the box. The attic seemed to close in, and she had to leave.

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