rattled - Story 109677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was a casual aside in an email chain: Professor Bell’s new role at a university in Canada. Everything felt off. The bright, sunny campus she usually enjoyed was now irritating. Sam felt a tightness in his chest.

He couldn't concentrate on his work. The words on the screen seemed to swim before his eyes. He got up and walked around his apartment, but he was unable to find any ease in the space.

He started to eat lunch, but the food sat cold and unfinished. He felt a hollow ache. It was a sense of uncertainty.

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