rattled - Story 109657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a wave of nausea. Her stomach lurched. Her intention had been to update her lawyer on the progress of her divorce. The message, however, had gone to *him*. Her soon-to-be ex-husband.

She wanted to scream. The message detailed the things that he had done to her. It was brutal and unfiltered. He would be furious, defensive.

She felt a hot flush rush over her. She buried her face in her hands, wishing she could rewind time. She needed to hide. She needed a safe place. She was not prepared for this.

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