Her breath hitched in her throat as she unearthed a box labeled "Maya's Achievements." A wave of dizziness rolled over her. Every essay, every test, every graded assignment— all there. The enormity of the collection was staggering.

She felt a strange sensation, like the walls were closing in on her. The air felt heavy. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

She backed away from the box, stumbling slightly. "Mom?" she called, her voice trembling.

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