rattled - Story 109569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach was a knot. The caterer’s upbeat voice on the phone grated on her nerves. The details of her art gallery opening felt suddenly insignificant next to Leo’s planned festival. Jessica was at the top of her game, or so she thought. Now, her vision seemed to be falling apart.

She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on her fingers. The elegant dress she had chosen suddenly felt wrong. She paced her studio, the floorboards creaking under her hurried steps.

"This can't be happening," she muttered under her breath, a sense of panic washing over her. She knew she had to do something.

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