"Mom and Dad's place," Emily said aloud, the words tasting like ash in her mouth. She stared at the screen, the image of the familiar brick facade blurring with unshed tears. An uncomfortable heat washed over her face. She felt an urge to run, to escape the sudden and powerful weight that had descended on her. She fumbled for her coffee, the mug nearly slipping from her grasp. She knew she needed to call her brother, but her throat felt constricted, making it hard to swallow.

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