rattled - Story 109442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold wave washed over Daniel. He'd found his journal on his bed, spine askew, the pages not quite in the order he remembered. His hands trembled as he slowly turned each page. A sick feeling gnawed at his gut. He hadn't told anyone about his dreams of quitting school. Now, the weight of the secret felt heavier than ever.

His roommate, Mark, strolled in, whistling a tuneless melody. Daniel's breath hitched. He wanted to scream, to lash out.

"Everything alright, man?" Mark asked, oblivious. He tossed his backpack onto his bed, right next to Daniel’s journal.

Daniel managed a weak nod. He felt a creeping paranoia, imagining Mark’s mind now filled with his insecurities. He wouldn't be able to look Mark in the eye for weeks.

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