rattled - Story 109170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked past her, so close that she could smell his cologne. She forced herself to maintain a neutral expression, but inside, chaos reigned. The world seemed to tilt. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead.

She needed to breathe, but her lungs seemed to have forgotten how. Her throat constricted. She saw the familiar curve of his jaw and a wave of conflicting memories swamped her, threatening to overwhelm her. She took a step back, needing space, needing to escape.

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