He stared at the canvas, a landscape he'd painted last spring. Its blues, usually vibrant and alive, seemed dull under the harsh gallery lights. His jaw clenched, a muscle jumping erratically. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple, tracing a path through the fine hairs at the side of his face. He'd poured his heart into this piece, a secret longing for a place he’d never seen. Now, it was here, on public display, its secrets laid bare, a violation of something precious.

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