rattled - Story 109639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt colder than usual. David, waiting for his name to be called, absentmindedly flipped through the files on his desk. He glanced down at the bottom of the drawer and saw it. The letter. He hadn't seen it in years. It was addressed to the prosecutor in his old case. It was a letter expressing doubt, a plea for leniency, a secret he never shared. He felt a cold sweat prickle his skin. He swallowed hard. The world seemed to tilt slightly.

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