rattled - Story 109450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Leo’s gut felt like a lead brick. He picked up his journal, the binding slightly warped. He hadn't done that. He felt a deep, chilling dread. His heart pounded in his ears. The air seemed to be thick, impossible to breathe.

His roommate, Ben, was across the room, headphones on, seemingly oblivious. Leo's fists clenched. He wanted to scream. He wanted to confront him. He struggled for composure, the words refusing to form. He swallowed hard, trying to appear nonchalant. He quickly shut his journal and left the room, his breath hitching with every step.

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