rattled - Story 109083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt slightly as Maria read the email. A fence. Right. This was not happening. Her carefully curated life, her daily routine, her peaceful afternoons, all suddenly felt threatened. A cold sweat prickled her skin.

She slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the sudden silence of her apartment. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic, urgent rhythm. She needed to do something, anything, to regain control. Immediately, she decided.

She grabbed her keys and dashed out the door, the flimsy paper printout of the email still clutched tightly in her hand.

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