Her heart hammered against her ribs. The condo notice was a betrayal. She had just gotten used to her place.

She felt a sudden, almost overwhelming urge to flee. She grabbed her purse, her keys, and her phone, heading for the front door, just as soon as she processed what it all meant.

She needed to get out, away from the four walls that suddenly felt like a cage. She needed to breathe, to think, to escape. She found herself outside, staring back at the facade, a building she no longer fully recognized.

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