rattled - Story 109238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world became a blur. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded. He collapsed onto the couch. His teenage thoughts, now so embarrassing to him, were out there for the world to see!

He tried to calm himself, but it didn't work. His breathing was fast and shallow. He closed his eyes, imagining what others were thinking.

He needed to get away, hide, and never be seen again. He grabbed his keys and ran out of the apartment, the door slamming shut behind him.

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