Sophia walked to the window, the letter clutched in her hand. The world seemed overly bright. Her mother, the bastion of strength and unwavering dedication, had wanted to leave her job. Her mind struggled to compute.

She ran a hand over her forehead. She felt confused, and the air around her felt thick. She suddenly wanted to scream. She took another deep breath and started to wander around the room, aimlessly. She wanted to *forget*.

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