rattled - Story 109114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The swim goggles felt tight, constricting. Chloe, a dedicated butterfly swimmer, felt a prickling sensation on her skin when Coach Evans said, "Chloe, we're putting you on the backstroke for this meet." The words hung in the air, heavy with unspoken expectations.

Her stomach churned, a cold wave breaking within her. She'd dedicated years to perfecting her butterfly technique, every stroke a testament to her commitment. Now, everything felt different, wrong.

She clenched her jaw, the muscles in her face tight. The water in the pool shimmered, reflecting the harsh fluorescent lights. She could feel everyone watching her as she took her place.

She told herself to breathe. She had to do this.

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