It was the student newspaper editor, Sarah, who first broke the news to her team. She had been working tirelessly to keep the paper running. Now, her energy seemed to leak out of her. Sheโ€™d spent all this time building up the paper and now she was left with nothing.

Her voice cracked as she spoke, and she had to pause several times to regain her composure. She watched her team members, their faces mirroring her own turmoil. They were trying to talk, to ask questions, but there was a collective confusion in the room. Sarah rested her forehead on her hands. The room became silent, each student lost in their own thoughts.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.258
๋‹ค์‹œ0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.769
la-0.579
a-0.375
happy-0.292
"-0.290