rattled - Story 109285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Sarah, normally unflappable, felt her equilibrium waver. The notification from Jessica Harding, a girl who used to make her cry in the school bathroom, sat there, a digital serpent in her inbox.

Her jaw clenched, and she had to clench her teeth to avoid shouting. She picked up her phone and dropped it back to the table again.

She hated the fact that she was reacting so strongly. She took a deep breath, steeling herself to make a decision, but she had no idea what she would do.

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