He stared at the package, a sudden tension seizing his chest. The name, "Ms. Eleanor Vance," was foreign to him, but the old apartment building held a certain oppressive atmosphere. He hadn’t felt right since he moved in, an unsettling weight settling on his shoulders.

He edged closer to the package, peering around. The shadows in the hallway seemed to deepen, as if the light were being somehow sucked away.

He quickly grabbed the package, trying to steady his wavering grip. He brought it inside, then slammed the door. He leaned against it, breathing heavily.

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