The DNA results were like a physical blow. Sarah stumbled back, her hand flying to her mouth. The familiar patterns of her life – her job, her apartment, her relationships – all seemed to blur at the edges.

She sank onto the sofa, the cushions offering no support. The apartment, once her sanctuary, now felt like a cage. She couldn't stop the thoughts swirling.

She felt an overwhelming urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of this new information. The silence of the room was oppressive, broken only by the frantic hammering of her own heart. She needed answers, needed to understand.

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