rattled - Story 109110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead lights seemed to beat down on him, making the air thick and heavy. He adjusted his tie, the fabric suddenly feeling constricting around his neck. He felt like he was drowning. He took a long, slow breath, trying to calm the hammering in his chest. His gaze went back to the computer screen.

He heard the new guy, Michael, ask another question, and the sound of his own voice felt distant, removed. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to scream, to lash out, to somehow reclaim control. The room began to spin.

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