The woman found herself pacing outside the gallery, a restless energy coursing through her. Her hands were ice-cold. She couldn’t bring herself to go in. It was her private, her innermost thoughts displayed for the whole world. She kept seeing the image, that photograph, reproduced, replicated. Every footfall on the pavement seemed too loud, every car horn a personal assault.

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