rattled - Story 109659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched. The blood drained from her face. She'd been messaging her sister about a family drama, venting her frustrations. But *Michael*? Her ex? The man she had spent years trying to erase from her life?

Her hands started to shake uncontrollably. The message was a vitriolic rant, filled with years of pent-up resentment. She could imagine his reaction. His smug, know-it-all expression.

She dropped her phone on the floor, the screen cracking. She felt a profound sense of despair. She was going to have to face him. She just knew it.

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