David spent the evening staring at the ceiling, the words of the flyer echoing in his mind. He couldn't sleep. The building was being sold, the landlord was on a tight schedule.

He found himself meticulously straightening things, as if the physical act could somehow restore order to his chaotic thoughts. He folded his clothes with unusual care, lined up his shoes, wiped down the countertops.

He stared at the blank screen of his laptop, unable to focus. The future felt murky, unclear, and he had no idea where to start. He was stuck.

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