rattled - Story 109678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call was short, abrupt. Professor Silva was departing for a government position in D.C. Maria felt a wave of nausea.

She found herself unable to remain in her office. She wandered the halls of the department, her footsteps echoing in the emptiness. The faces of her peers seemed distant, their conversations muffled.

She went to the university cafe and ordered a coffee, but the taste was like ash. She couldn't shake the feeling of being adrift, cast out.

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