The world felt…off-kilter. Sarah clutched her keys so hard her knuckles were white. She hadn’t slept. Not since the interview. The drive home felt surreal, each street corner blurring into the next. She replayed the whole conversation in her head, dissecting every word, every gesture.

Her front door slammed shut behind her, the noise jarring. She dropped her keys, the sound barely registering. She kicked the door again, out of frustration.

She wanted to scream.

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