The sight of the barren spot stole his breath. The cedar, his silent confidant, reduced to a few scattered pieces of firewood. He felt a sudden, irrational urge to smash something. His fists clenched so tightly his fingernails drew blood.

He bit down on his lip, tasting the metallic tang of blood. He kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the dry ground. The world swam before his eyes. He slowly began to walk away, his pace erratic.

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