rattled - Story 109660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, his eyes wide. His mouth opened, but no words came out. He had intended to text his therapist, detailing the events of the day. But *The Detective*? He'd accidentally messaged the lead investigator in a case he was involved in.

He gripped his desk, his knuckles white. The message contained details that were meant to remain confidential. He felt a cold dread creep into his bones.

He stood up so quickly that his chair tipped over. He had to fix this. Immediately. His future depended on 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