rattled - Story 109157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the interview felt excruciatingly long. Clara gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The radio, normally a comfort, felt like an assault on her senses, the music grating against her nerves.

She and Lily were both vying for the creative director position at the advertising agency. They had been friends since childhood. Now, the camaraderie felt distant, overshadowed by the intense pressure of the competition.

She pulled into the parking lot, her heart hammering against her ribs. She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing pulse, but her efforts were futile. The image of Lily, radiating confidence, flashed through her mind, and a wave of nausea washed over her.

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