rattled - Story 109512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kept fiddling with the whistle lanyard, the plastic digging into his palm. Every time he caught sight of the assistant coach, his gut clenched. He hadn’t slept well, tossing and turning until the first rays of sun peeked through the blinds. He dreaded the weight of the day ahead. His mind swirled with the many scenarios.

The air in the gym hung heavy, thick with the scent of pine and anticipation. He looked out at the faces of the kids, their youthful enthusiasm now grating on his nerves. He hated disappointing people.

The door creaked open, and there he was, standing in the doorway. He wanted to look away, but couldn't. His palms were slick with sweat. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself. "Come on in, Jake. Let's step out into the hall, shall we?"

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