rattled - Story 109239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slumped into her chair, the screen still flickering before her. The past was laid bare, a tapestry of insecurities and longings, now on display for anyone to peruse. The thought felt like a blow to the gut.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a physical manifestation of her fear. The very fabric of her existence felt precarious, on the verge of unraveling.

She closed her eyes. She wanted it all to go away, to be a bad dream. She felt the tears begin to prick at her eyes, a silent testament to her rising distress.

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