rattled - Story 109310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sandwich tasted like cardboard. Carol pushed it away, unable to eat. She had seen the email. The information, a list of salaries, showed the new hire, Peter, was getting more than she was. She had worked at the company for years. Her stomach felt hollow.

She closed her eyes and took a few long breaths, trying to regain some semblance of composure. It didn't work.

She found herself staring at the clock, watching the seconds tick by. The numbers seemed to mock her. She felt a burning in her chest. She got up, walked to the water cooler, and poured herself a glass. Her hand was trembling as she drank it.

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