rattled - Story 109106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt smaller, the walls closing in. He kept wiping his brow. He didn’t understand why he was sweating so much. The temperature was fine. He tried to smile at the new hire, a young man named Ben, but his lips felt stiff. He gestured towards the computer screen. "Right, so, this is the… the main dashboard." He hated the tremor in his voice.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to run, to escape this situation, to disappear. He took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. He knew he was failing.

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