rattled - Story 109619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the gaze of the crowd on him as he stood. A tremor ran through him. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other, the polished floor cold against his shoes. He could practically hear his own heartbeat in his ears, a frantic drumbeat that threatened to drown out everything else. He looked at his mother, who offered him a reassuring smile, and he felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

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