rattled - Story 109265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Elena's hand, the screen reflecting her own disappointed face. Each time it rang, she jumped, heart hammering against her ribs. She was expecting a call. A call. She was sure it would arrive, or at least that's what she had been telling herself for weeks. She'd left the audition with such confidence. The audition. The memory of the choreographer's smile, so warm at the time, now felt sarcastic. She couldn’t bring herself to look at her dance shoes, lined up neatly by the door.

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