rattled - Story 109234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the darkened window, the glow of the computer screen casting a sickly light on his face. His heart hammered against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the night. His journal, filled with clumsy attempts at poetry and naive observations, was now exposed for all to see.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He wanted to erase the internet, the world, everything. He clenched his fists, feeling the nails bite into his palms.

He forced himself to take a deep breath. He needed a plan, something to hold onto in the face of this sudden exposure. He didn't know where to start.

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