rattled - Story 109445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara noticed the slight fold in the corner of her journal's page. A small, almost invisible detail, but she recognized it instantly. She kept her most intimate thoughts there, secrets written in ink. Her palms began to sweat. Her legs suddenly felt heavy.

She glanced at her roommate, Olivia, who was humming softly while organizing her closet. Clara's stomach clenched. The casual familiarity of the room, the shared space, now felt poisoned. She felt a desperate urge to tear up her journal, to erase every word, to reclaim some semblance of control. She fought the urge, knowing it would be too late.

"Did you...?" Clara started, but the words caught in her throat.

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