rattled - Story 109820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Claire whispered to herself, the words sounding hollow even to her own ears. The floral wallpaper of the waiting room seemed to close in on her, the patterns blurring before her eyes. She felt a cold wave wash over her, stealing her sense of grounding. She clenched her jaw, trying to stop the tremors starting in her hands.

She was so close to turning back, to fleeing from this place. But the problems in her life demanded action. She found herself trying to breathe evenly as she rose and walked to his door.

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