rattled - Story 109758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office felt stifling. Charles sat across from the desk, a handwritten letter in his hand. From his deceased father's secretary, confessing to a long-held secret. The words felt like acid in his gut. He was a fraud.

He stared at the letter, the paper crinkling in his grip. The meticulously crafted lies of his upbringing suddenly felt hollow, replaced with a painful sense of betrayal. He was sweating. He wiped his brow with the back of his hand.

He shifted in his chair. He had never felt so lost. The world shifted. He wanted to leave, but he was rooted to the spot. He stared at the lawyer, but couldn't focus. He felt a heavy sadness.

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