"Oh, for heaven's sake," muttered Clara, pulling the curtains closed. The sudden shift in light left her feeling disoriented. The rhythmic pounding started before dawn.

She tried to remain calm, to maintain her usual routine, but her temper flared when the power went out - right as she was about to start her coffee. She slammed the door to the kitchen.

She started to feel that the noise was a personal affront. She marched to the phone, intending to call the construction company, but ended up pacing around her kitchen, muttering under her breath.

Emotion: rattled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.29 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.42

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion rattled. 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 rattled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the rattled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the rattled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.264
😣0.261
worse0.256
😞0.248
😖0.247
Suppressed:
de-0.571
la-0.414
a-0.377
happy-0.259
enthusi-0.234