rattled - Story 109587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soundcheck was underway. The singer, who was touring as an opening act, had a different setlist than he had agreed to. Alex, the headliner, leaned closer to his sound tech, trying to process the song that was playing. His song. "Midnight Bloom."

The unfamiliar chords twisted inside his stomach. He felt his face heat up, his pulse quickening. The other singer’s voice, a soaring soprano, was drastically different from his own gravelly tone.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The tech, seeing his reaction, looked concerned. Alex took a deep breath, trying to regain control. His carefully crafted show was being invaded. This felt intrusive.

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