"That can't be right," I mumbled, my voice barely audible. I felt a chill creep up my spine as I stared at the grade: a 'D' in history. I replayed the exam in my head, frantically trying to pinpoint where I’d gone wrong. I twisted the strap of my bag, my fingers clumsy and fidgety. The bright sunlight outside the window seemed to mock my inner turmoil. I felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the crushing weight of the disappointment.

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
šŸ˜ž0.248
šŸ˜–0.247
Suppressed:
de-0.571
la-0.414
a-0.377
happy-0.259
enthusi-0.234