rattled - Story 109226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the stacks of papers, a coldness spreading through his chest. He felt as if he was being watched, judged. Everything, from a first-grade spelling test to a college application essay, was here. His mother had preserved his entire scholastic career, like some kind of strange trophy.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling his pulse quicken. He needed air, needed to be away from this suffocating display of… devotion? Control? He didn’t know.

He grabbed his car keys and bolted out the front door, leaving the boxes of memories undisturbed.

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