John felt a wave of cold wash over him as he read the notification on his phone: a 'C' on his physics quiz. He stumbled backward, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He paced his tiny dorm room, each step heavy and deliberate. The posters on the walls, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to leer at him. He needed to get out. He grabbed his coat, the cold air suddenly appealing.

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