She walked home slowly, the weight of her backpack suddenly crushing her shoulders. The setting sun cast long, distorted shadows that mirrored the turmoil inside her. Her steps felt heavy, each one an effort. Every rustle of leaves in the wind sounded like Coach’s quiet, yet firm, words echoing again and again in her ears: "Sarah, I need to make some cuts." Tears pricked at her eyes, but she blinked them away. The world seemed muted, colors less vibrant.

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