rattled - Story 109116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're shifting to libero, Sasha," her coach had declared, the words hanging in the tense silence of the volleyball court. Sasha, a star outside hitter, felt the blood drain from her face.

Her hands, usually strong and steady, trembled as she touched the volleyball. The shift to a defensive role felt like a betrayal of her training.

She watched the other players move through their warm-ups, their movements effortless. A fresh pang of doubt filled her.

She took a deep breath, trying to regain her composure. This wasn't her role. Her stomach clenched again. The court felt different, the net a barrier.

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