rattled - Story 109067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped space of the internet cafe felt suddenly suffocating. Liam rubbed his temples, trying to ward off the throbbing headache that had begun to build behind his eyes. The rejection letter, stark and unyielding, glared at him from the screen. He felt a sudden, overwhelming sense of futility.

He swiveled around in the rickety chair, his gaze flitting around the room, taking in the cheap computers and the tired-looking people hunched over them. He felt a strong desire to run away, to just disappear.

He took a deep breath, steeling himself. He knew he had to figure out a plan, he just didn't know where to start. He took a sip of his lukewarm coffee and sighed.

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