The afternoon sun cast long shadows as I walked away from the fence, each step heavy. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. I couldn’t meet Mr. Peterson’s gaze. The way his gaze rested on my home and his comments on my lawn, felt like a judgment. I felt the urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of the situation. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to banish the vision of the chainsaw. I felt a need to close my eyes.

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