"No, no, no," Chloe whispered, shaking her head. The website address swam before her. She kept hitting refresh, as though the pictures would change, the facts would be altered. The description boasted of "modern upgrades" and "move-in condition." She didn't want upgrades, she didn't want new, she wanted *hers*. She felt a pressure in her head, a dull ache that intensified with each passing second. She felt a need to scream, to lash out, but instead, she just sat there, frozen, staring at the screen.

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