rattled - Story 109718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from his face. John stared at the notice, his eyes wide. His apartment, his safe haven, was suddenly under siege. He felt disoriented, as though the ground had shifted beneath his feet.

He leaned against the counter for support, his legs threatening to buckle. He felt a sudden, urgent need to escape, to run. His gaze darted around the apartment. He wanted to scream.

He picked up his phone, his hands trembling. He had to call someone. He just didn't know who. The world was spinning.

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