The morning commute was a nightmare, packed buses and impatient drivers. Sam, already stressed, checked his messages. An alumni newsletter. He opened it without thinking.

His essay. Featured. He felt a sharp pang of…what? Embarrassment? Shame? He wasn't sure. He wanted to disappear.

He closed his eyes, leaning back against the seat, the jostling motion of the bus adding to the unease. The city outside the window blurred, a chaotic mess of colors and movement.

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