rattled - Story 109120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're moving from center to guard, Ben," the football coach had said. Ben, usually so self-assured, felt a knot of anxiety tighten in his chest. His heart thudded in his ears.

He paced the sidelines, the pre-game energy of the stadium a jumble of noise. The other offensive linemen looked calm and confident. He felt a wave of nausea.

He was built for the center position, for the snap, for the precision of the play call. Now he needed to start again. He had to block a different side.

He wiped his sweaty palms on his uniform, his mouth dry. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself. He needed to be strong. For his 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