rattled - Story 109278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of fresh paint and new beginnings hung in the air, a scent that only made her feel worse. The move from the art department to the legal department was a chasm she couldn't cross. She felt like she was trapped in a play, forced to perform a role for which she wasn't prepared.

She sat at her new desk, staring blankly at the legal documents. Her mind replayed all the conversations she had today, trying to catch up. She had the urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of this unfamiliar world.

The legal jargon seemed to mock her, and she felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Each new word felt like a mountain to climb. The feeling of drowning was overwhelming.

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