rattled - Story 109676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come in,” Professor Moreau had said, and then… the blow. Leaving for a prestigious research position in France. Chloe’s breath hitched. She fought back the sudden urge to burst into tears.

She had built her entire research plan around Moreau’s guidance. The project felt impossible now. She excused herself and stepped into the hallway, the world tilting.

Her head spun. Her hands trembled. She leaned against the wall, trying to regain her equilibrium, as if she could physically re-center herself.

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