He stared at the package. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple. He had been preparing dinner, but now, all appetite had fled. His fingers tightened around the greasy spatula, as he realized the package was addressed to the same man who had haunted his dreams.

The air in the kitchen felt thick and heavy. He leaned against the counter, suddenly exhausted. He remembered all the things the previous tenant had done. He ran his hand through his hair. Then, with a sigh, he slowly reached for a knife. He would have to open it.

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