rattled - Story 109204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," he muttered, the words barely audible. Mark paced the length of the driveway, each stride jerky and uneven. He ran his hands over his face, as if trying to physically wipe away the evidence of this… this violation. His heart hammered a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He felt like he was floating outside his own body, watching a terrible movie unfold. He had to be dreaming. He had to wake up. He spun around, as if expecting the car to magically reappear.

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