rattled - Story 109819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen of his phone, unable to look away from the confirmation email. The words swam before his eyes: "Dr. Susan Bradley." Susan Bradley. The queen of the playground, the one who orchestrated his social isolation. Now, she was supposed to help him.

He slammed his phone down, the sudden noise surprising him. He got up from his chair and paced the room. He felt restless, an energy that buzzed beneath his skin, demanding release. He knew he had to go, but the thought of facing her filled him with a sinking feeling.

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