rattled - Story 109826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman across the table, her face illuminated by the soft glow of the restaurant, was detailing her innovative new recipe for a cookbook. The recipe, the story, the secret ingredients… it was all identical to the one he had spent the last year working on. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

He clutched the edge of the table, his knuckles white. The waiter approached, asking if he was ready to order. "I… I need a moment," he stammered, avoiding eye contact. He needed to get out of there. He felt the blood draining from his face.

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