"Good morning," the man said cheerfully, a grin plastered across his face. The words felt like a slap in the face. Inside, everything felt hollow. The morning had started alright. Then the power tools started and he felt like he was losing his mind.

He went to the window, peering out between the blinds. He wanted to shout something. He wanted to scream at the construction workers.

His hands clenched. He just needed this to be over. He wished he could crawl into a hole.

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