rattled - Story 109692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My stomach lurched as I watched Mr. Henderson, the CEO, approach. My palms were slick, and I surreptitiously wiped them on my trousers. The anticipation was a heavy weight, pressing down on my chest. I thought about the meticulously crafted presentation I had prepared, the late nights spent perfecting my pitch. Then, I remembered Sarah's proposal, equally impressive, possibly even more so.

"Good morning, Daniel," Mr. Henderson said, his voice unusually gentle. "Can I have a word?"

My throat closed up. Every step toward the corner office felt like walking the plank. The familiar scent of mahogany and ambition in the air was suddenly suffocating. I nodded dumbly, my limbs feeling like lead.

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