rattled - Story 109185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that descended after he hung up was a physical weight, pressing down on her. The air in the car was thick, charged. They were driving home from his parents' place. She glanced at him. His face was set, his jaw clenched. He was staring straight ahead, avoiding her eyes.

A cold knot formed in her stomach. She felt a prickling sensation on the back of her neck. He never took calls on his phone when they were together.

She found herself fidgeting with her seatbelt, the click of the buckle echoing in the stillness. When they reached their drive, he turned off the engine, but didn’t move.

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