rattled - Story 109319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t know why he felt the need to inspect the phone, but he did. He’d noticed a change in Maya, a certain… reserve. He scrolled through the recent activity, his pulse quickening with each click. The language app was right there.

Her native tongue. Arabic. He closed his eyes, a knot forming in his stomach. He hadn't known she was even interested in learning it. He felt suddenly distant, as if viewing himself from above.

He felt the prickle of sweat on his forehead. What had he missed? He needed to know what had changed.

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