He replayed the previous evening in his mind, searching for any clue. Had he forgotten something? Had he angered someone? The air felt thin, making it difficult to breathe. Robertโ€™s hands trembled as he slowly reached for his phone. He needed to act, to do something. The sun beat down on him, and he felt a bead of sweat trickle down his forehead. He had a million things to do today and this had just ruined everything.

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
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.261
worse0.256
๐Ÿ˜ž0.248
๐Ÿ˜–0.247
Suppressed:
de-0.571
la-0.414
a-0.377
happy-0.259
enthusi-0.234