He stared at the peeling wallpaper in the master bedroom. It was exactly where the body had been discovered, or so the detective had told him. The room, once a sanctuary, now felt like a prison. He didn't even want to enter it.

He sat on the edge of the bed, his hands clenched in his lap. The silence was deafening, broken only by the frantic beat of his own heart. He kept picturing the scene, each detail etched into his memory.

He stood up, unable to bear the weight of the air, and moved to the window. Outside, the world seemed normal, but inside, his world had shattered. He felt a deep, profound sense of unease settle over him.

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