rattled - Story 109864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the staff room felt thick, stifling. Ms. Ramirez avoided making eye contact with anyone as she opened the envelope. A note, hand-written, was all. “Been thinking about you, Ms. Ramirez. Sorry for the trouble. - Marco.”

She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, a sudden chill that had nothing to do with the air conditioning. Marco. The boy who’d disappeared, the one who’d blamed her for…well, everything. She could feel her heartbeat speeding up, a frantic drum against her ribs.

She crumpled the note in her hand. Her knuckles were white. The paper felt rough, foreign. She stood and took a deep breath, and then went back to her classroom.

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