rattled - Story 109620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah felt a sudden, urgent need to escape. The high ceilings of the ballroom seemed to be closing in, the air growing thick and heavy. She was aware of an odd tingling sensation in her fingers, and her vision was blurry. She struggled to keep the notes steady in her trembling hand. She forced herself to meet her father's eyes, and then, slowly, she forced herself to speak, the words emerging as a strained whisper.

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