rattled - Story 109270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar rhythm of the track felt alien. Olivia stared at the smooth surface, the same one she had spent months running on and dreaming about. Now, the track felt like a trap. Her legs felt heavy, unwilling to move. Each step was a struggle, her breath coming in ragged gasps. The other runners sped past her, their focused expressions a constant reminder of what she had failed to achieve. She stopped, her body trembling, and watched them.

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