He stared at the envelope, the faded ink and the familiar, yet distant, handwriting making his vision swim. Daniel hadn't expected to find anything of value in his recently deceased grandmother's belongings, but here it was: a letter, addressed to his grandfather, never mailed. It was filled with confessions of longing and regret, things he'd never known about his grandmother. He felt his face flush. He needed to get out, he needed some air, to walk somewhere, anywhere. But his feet wouldn't move.

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