The aroma of freshly baked bread from the bakery suddenly seemed nauseating. The beautiful park where she had planned their picnic felt tainted. The other woman, her voice trembling, said, "He told me he was moving here for us." Her world felt like it was fracturing into a million pieces. She was struggling to keep it together. She could feel a heavy sensation in her chest, as though an immense weight was sitting there, crushing her, and she suddenly felt a need to run away and hide.

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