rattled - Story 109570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed, reflecting the worried lines etched on Mark’s face. He re-read the email, the words blurring before his eyes. Maya’s beach bonfire was going to be massive. Mark’s intimate dinner felt… minuscule.

He sighed, the sound heavy in the otherwise silent apartment. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt a thrumming sensation in his temples. He needed to get this right. He needed to pull it together.

He finally stood up, a sense of purpose suddenly filling him, making him move about the apartment. "Okay," he said to himself. "Okay. Let's make this happen. Let's make it memorable."

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