The classroom felt different, somehow. Sarah kept glancing at Mr. Peterson, her art teacher, during the lesson. Every time their eyes met, she would quickly look away. He had followed her. He saw her art. Her terrible sketches. Her embarrassing attempts at photography.

She kept dropping her pencil. Her hands would not stop shaking. When he walked past her desk, she felt a flush creep up her neck.

She desperately hoped he hadn’t seen the picture she’d posted last week. The one she thought was funny.

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