rattled - Story 109519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at the loose threads of the worn upholstery on his chair, pulling until the fabric frayed and ripped. The room was stuffy, the air thick with unspoken tension. He felt pinned down, unable to move.

He hated the way his heart hammered against his ribs. He felt like he was suffocating. He had a pit in his stomach. He wasn’t prepared for the looks of disappointment.

"Come in, Michael. Have a seat," he finally croaked, gesturing towards the chair opposite him. Michael entered, his posture rigid. The weight of what had to be said pressed down on him, nearly crushing.

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