rattled - Story 109236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the computer screen, mind racing. His diary was public! He could barely think, barely breathe. The air felt thick, heavy with some unseen pressure.

He kept running the scene through his mind, from the moment he found the website to the moment he read through some of the entries. His stomach twisted into a knot, a painful reminder of his younger self.

He felt the sudden urge to be alone. He quickly grabbed his coat and hurried from the house, the night air a cold slap to his face.

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