rattled - Story 109255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Sarah. Her essay, the one she poured her heart and soul into, was now plastered on the website. But the name wasn’t hers. The name was "Richard Blackwood." She felt a searing pain in her chest, a physical manifestation of her mounting unease.

She wandered aimlessly through her apartment, touching objects almost as if to ground herself. The chipped mug, the worn armchair, the pile of books on her nightstand – all these familiar things offered no comfort.

She couldn’t catch her breath. She picked up her phone to call someone, anyone, but her thumb hovered over the screen. What could she even say?

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