rattled - Story 109168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the reception hall seemed to mock him. He saw her across the room, laughing at something a friend had said. It felt like a punch to the gut. He felt the blood drain from his face. He quickly reached for a chair, afraid he was going to fall over.

He avoided any eye contact. His mind replayed every bad thing that had happened between them. He thought about leaving, but it was too late. He was trapped. He could barely stand.

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