rattled - Story 109117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cricket bat felt heavy, foreign in his hands. Raj, a bowler by trade, felt a cold dread when the captain had said, "Raj, we need you to bat today." He glanced at his teammates. Their faces showed the same confusion.

He swallowed hard. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck.

He took a stance, his body stiff. The sun seemed to bore down on him. The air seemed to thicken. He was a bowler. He knew how to get the ball to the stumps.

He felt a sudden sense of displacement, of being out of his depth. He felt the sting of disappointment, the pressure to perform. He knew he'd do it for the team.

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