rattled - Story 109812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam drummed his fingers on the armrest, a frantic rhythm against the silence. The stale air of the waiting room pressed down on him, thick and suffocating. He kept replaying the email confirmation in his head, each word a fresh blow: "Dr. Eleanor Vance." Eleanor Vance. *His* Eleanor Vance. The girl who used to delight in tripping him in the school hallway.

He crossed and uncrossed his legs, the leather of the chair squeaking in protest. His palms were slick. He hadn’t felt this unsettled since…well, since being cornered in the school cafeteria.

“Liam?” The door opened, and she stood there, a vision of…calmness? He felt his breath catch. He rose, his throat tight, and forced a smile he didn't feel.

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