He had been in the garden for a ridiculous amount of time. Rain lashed against the kitchen window. The rhythmic drumming did nothing to soothe the tremor in her hands as she watched him through the glass. Liam was on his phone again, tucked away behind the rose bushes, his voice a low murmur she couldn't quite decipher.

A coldness spread through her chest. She found herself pacing the kitchen, the floorboards groaning under her feet. She went to the window to wipe away the condensation and he was still there.

She picked up the phone, intending to call him. Her thumb hovered over his number, and then she slammed the phone back down. A wave of nausea hit her.

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