He kept replaying the scene in his mind: the glint of sunlight on the gleaming black leather, the way it lay abandoned on the curb. He should have left it. Could have. Now, back in his cramped apartment, the bills seemed to pulse with a strange energy. He felt a dizzying sensation in his stomach, as if he'd just ridden a particularly violent rollercoaster. He paced the small room, the cheap linoleum cold beneath his bare feet. The temptation to spend it, to just *use* it, clawed at him.

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