The news felt like a bomb had detonated inside her. Emily sat paralyzed, staring at the screen. Her vision blurred. The meticulously crafted narrative of her life had crumbled into dust.

She felt a desperate need to find out more. She tried to steady herself, but her hands were trembling. Her heart pounded in her chest. Every cell in her body felt hyper-alert, anticipating the next unexpected blow.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the flood of emotions, the overwhelming sense of loss. She felt vulnerable, exposed, and utterly alone.

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