The math test felt impossible. Emily kept losing her train of thought. Every time she looked up, she imagined Mr. Garcia, her math teacher, scrutinizing her online presence. He’d followed her on TikTok.

She saw his picture when she was checking her phone after the test. She had spent the last week creating goofy dance videos. Now, she felt a burning embarrassment.

She felt a wave of nausea. Why? What did he even *want*?

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
πŸ˜–0.247
Suppressed:
de-0.571
la-0.414
a-0.377
happy-0.259
enthusi-0.234