rattled - Story 109628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt interminable. David kept replaying the moment he'd discovered that Ms. Johnson, his Spanish teacher, had started following him on Facebook. He felt a profound sense of discomfort.

He hadn't been careful, he thought. He'd shared too much. He remembered the post about the party, the slightly unflattering picture he’d taken.

He turned up the radio, a desperate attempt to drown out the voice in his head, but it didn't help. The music only seemed to amplify the feeling.

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