rattled - Story 109801 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah’s hands shook as she stared at the email. It was from a lawyer, a name she didn’t recognize, and it contained a DNA test result. Positive. A half-sibling. A brother. Her stomach churned. She felt a sudden, inexplicable chill, even though the office air conditioner was blasting. She slammed her laptop shut, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the sudden quiet.

She needed air. Grabbing her keys, she bolted from her cubicle, ignoring her coworker’s startled glance. The elevator ride felt agonizingly slow. Outside, the city roared, but it sounded distant, muffled.

She walked, not towards her car, but away from it, blindly, letting her feet carry her. The afternoon sun beat down, but she didn’t feel the warmth. Her mind raced, a chaotic jumble of questions and anxieties. How? Why? What now?

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