The gym felt gigantic now, the echoing emptiness a stark contrast to the lively practices he'd known. He wandered the court, running his hand over the polished floor, a sense of disbelief washing over him. The net swayed gently in the breeze from the open windows, and everything reminded him of the games he’d missed. He felt a constant pressure building behind his eyes, a sensation of impending overwhelm. He needed to find a place to be 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
λ‹€μ‹œ0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.769
la-0.579
a-0.375
happy-0.292
"-0.290