rattled - Story 109823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The code stared back at Leo, mocking him with its familiarity. Lines of it. The same functions, the same structure, the same… everything. He’d spent countless hours hunched over his laptop, battling with bugs, celebrating breakthroughs. Now, this.

He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear the haze that had descended over his vision. The air in his cramped apartment felt thick, suffocating. He leaned back in his chair, the squeak of the plastic a sudden, jarring sound.

His fingers clenched, nails digging into his palms. He didn’t understand. How? It didn't make sense. He muttered to himself, "It can't be."

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