rattled - Story 109399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes darted around the coffee shop, even though no one was paying her any attention. The letter, discovered in a well-loved copy of *Little Women*, spoke of a betrayal, the writer's life shattered by the actions of another. She felt a chill crawl up her spine.

Her hands shook as she reread the words. The air around her felt heavy, suffocating. She felt a frantic need to escape, to be free of the feeling. She stood up abruptly, spilling her coffee. "Sorry," she mumbled, and fled, leaving a mess of wet paper on the table.

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