rattled - Story 109648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement had come during a crucial meeting. Lisa felt a jolt of panic, the words blurring, the presenter's voice fading into the background. She felt her face flush, heat spreading from her neck upwards.

She excused herself and went to the restroom. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to compose herself. Her reflection stared back, pale and drawn. She looked like a ghost.

She took a deep breath, willing herself to calm down. The cold water stung, grounding her. But the feeling remained: a sense of the rug being pulled out from under her.

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