The eviction notice seemed to pulse in the dim light of the hallway. I felt a surge of heat rush through me, making my face burn. I wanted to scream, to rip the paper to shreds, but I was frozen in place. My legs felt like they were made of concrete.

The air in the hallway felt heavy, thick, and difficult to breathe. I took shallow, rapid breaths, struggling to maintain control. I could feel my pulse hammering in my ears. The door to my apartment, usually a symbol of sanctuary, now felt like a barrier.

My mind raced, jumping between thoughts, unable to focus on anything. I wanted to run, to disappear, to escape the suffocating weight of the situation. I suddenly felt so very 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