rattled - Story 109824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She kept repeating the phrase 'no way' under her breath as she stared at the screen. The winning entry for the architectural competition – a design she'd spent months perfecting, only to have another firm build it. Every line, every curve, every innovative element was a direct copy of her own. She felt a rush of heat spread through her, prickling her skin.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She stood up, knocking over her chair in the process. It clattered against the wooden floor. She couldn't focus. She needed air.

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