The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, but Claire barely noticed. Her focus was entirely consumed by the images of the house. She felt a nervous energy bubbling in her chest, making her fidget in her seat. The new owners had painted the living room that god-awful beige she'd always hated. She felt a sudden, inexplicable anger, a simmering resentment she couldn't explain. She got up and began pacing the living room, her steps unsteady and quick.

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