rattled - Story 109049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her shoulders were tense, her jaw clenched. Maria's back was stiff. The vibration from the hammering was a physical weight. She couldn't focus on the task at hand.

She ran her hand through her hair, which was becoming increasingly disheveled. She felt her chest tighten, and the air seemed too thin. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to find her center.

She needed to get away, she decided. She grabbed her keys and headed for the door, needing to be anywhere but there.

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:

`S`	0.264
`😣`	0.261
`worse`	0.256
`😞`	0.248
`😖`	0.247

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.571
`la`	-0.414
`a`	-0.377
`happy`	-0.259
`enthusi`	-0.234