The listing had popped up while Liam was idly browsing. He clicked, and a wave of… something… washed over him. He felt as though he'd been plunged into icy water. The layout was the same, but the decor was alien. Gone were the mismatched furniture and family photos, replaced by sleek, modern pieces. He felt a profound sense of wrongness, as if the very air in his apartment had changed. He couldn't shake the feeling, and his legs felt weak. He abruptly stood, needing to move, needing to do *something* to dispel the disquiet.

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