The silence in the art gallery was deafening. Across the polished floor, stood Mark. He was looking at *his* sculptures; the ones *he* had painstakingly created over the past year. Except, they weren't his. Not anymore.

He took a step backward, bumping into another patron. He mumbled an apology. He saw his own, familiar designs, and was unsure what to do. His hands clenched.

He started breathing quickly. The air felt thin. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but instead, he remained silent, frozen in place, a spectator to his own artistic demise.

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