rattled - Story 109268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with tension as Leo walked home, his cleats clicking on the pavement. He couldn't shake the feeling that everyone was staring at him, judging. He avoided eye contact, staring at his shoes. His shoulders were slumped, his strides heavy. He imagined the coach's face, the words echoing in his ears. His apartment felt cold and empty, a stark contrast to the camaraderie he had craved. The silence was overwhelming, a suffocating blanket.

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