rattled - Story 109269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over Daniel as the coach called out the names. He could feel his heartbeat thudding against his ribs as he stood there in the gymnasium. His palms began to sweat. When he didn't hear his name, the world seemed to shrink. He wanted to vanish, to disappear into the bleachers. He wanted to run, but his legs wouldn't cooperate. Every movement felt sluggish, every thought clouded by the sharp sting of disappointment. The world was spinning.

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