"This is insane," Elaine said to herself, her voice barely audible. She crumpled the flyer in her fist. The building she'd lived in for years, the place where she raised her children, was going condo.

She walked into the living room, a space filled with memories. She felt her chest tighten, and tears pricked her eyes. Everything felt… uncertain, unstable.

She sat on the sofa, her posture rigid. She had no idea where she’d go, what she’d do. She felt like she was being swept away by a current, powerless to fight.

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