rattled - Story 109286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his grip tighten on the steering wheel, his knuckles turning white. The name, "Brian Peterson," a name he hadn't thought of in decades, had appeared on his phone. Brian, who made his life miserable with cruel nicknames and relentless teasing.

He pulled over to the side of the road, heart pounding. The familiar knot of anxiety formed in his stomach. He wanted to scream.

He switched the car off and leaned his head back against the headrest, closing his eyes, he was suddenly in a school hallway again, all the fear and intimidation flooding back.

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