rattled - Story 109615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elegant ballroom transformed into a pressure cooker. John's perfectly tailored suit felt suddenly constricting, the collar digging into his neck. He adjusted his tie, a nervous tic he hadn't exhibited in years. He felt the blood drain from his face and a cold prickling on his skin. He couldn't quite see the words on his notecards, and he blinked hard to try and bring them into focus. "So, uh," he began, his voice barely a whisper, "Mom and Dad…"

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