rattled - Story 109240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, unable to look away. A coldness settled in his gut, spreading outward. The website, the words, the blatant violation of his privacy… it all felt like a physical assault.

He stood, pacing the confines of his small apartment. The walls seemed to move inwards, closing in on him. He felt trapped, suffocated.

He stopped, his hand shooting up to his mouth to try and control his erratic breathing. He needed to escape, to be alone, to think. He grabbed his coat, the fabric suddenly feeling coarse and foreign against his skin.

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