Her new temporary bedroom's walls were papered with a floral pattern, the same one from her childhood. Sarah felt a wave of nausea, the room suddenly closing in on her. She couldn’t breathe.

She sat on the edge of the bed, her hands trembling. She hated the floral.

Her phone buzzed. Her mother's text: “Dinner in 30 minutes, sweetie!” She wanted to throw the phone across the room. She was trapped. She felt so many emotions she could not name, but one thing was certain: she wasn't ready.

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