The chipped mug felt heavy in his hands. He'd gone out onto the balcony, that was all. But, she felt as though her stomach was sinking. He'd been gone for a long time. She caught the drift of his words. A female voice. It wasn't just a quick call.

She walked over to the sliding doors, looking at him. His posture was rigid, his shoulders hunched. The city lights twinkled in the distance, but the view held no beauty.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the door frame for support. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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