He was teaching a class, lecturing about writing, when he saw the email. He'd been asked to share a link to a "successful essay."

He felt a wave of icy dread wash over him. His essay. The one he’d written about loss and recovery. Now, it was a lesson plan.

His hands shook as he closed the email. He cleared his throat, trying to regain his composure. The students, expectant and eager, stared back at him. He forced a smile, the muscles in his face tight.

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
πŸ˜–0.247
Suppressed:
de-0.571
la-0.414
a-0.377
happy-0.259
enthusi-0.234