Her breath hitched in her throat. He'd been in the bathroom for an absurd amount of time. She'd heard muffled voices emanating from within. The water was running, masking the sounds, but she was still certain.

She stood outside the door, her hand hovering over the handle. She imagined the scene inside, the possibilities churning in her mind. Her head spun.

A wave of nausea crashed over her. She pressed her hand against her forehead, trying to steady herself. The bathroom door finally opened, and he emerged, his face carefully blank.

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