rattled - Story 109563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything alright, sweetheart?" Mom’s voice, concerned, reached her from the hallway. Sarah jumped, nearly spilling the coffee she was holding. She managed a weak smile. Leo's choice of a laser tag venue felt like a calculated attack.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady the tremor in her hands. Her carefully curated playlist felt utterly wrong now. Her carefully chosen decorations, suddenly… childish.

"Fine," Sarah said, forcing a casual tone. "Just… a little stressed about everything." The word hung in the air, a tiny, fragile bubble of truth. Her phone buzzed, another RSVP. She ignored it, suddenly overwhelmed by the monumental task ahead.

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