rattled - Story 109893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Clara muttered, the word a thin whisper. She examined the test results again, the large red 'C' staring back at her. Her hands felt clammy, and a pressure built behind her eyes. She wanted to scream. She sank back into the hard plastic chair in the cafeteria, the noise around her fading to a dull hum. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, an unfamiliar weight. The sandwich she held suddenly seemed unappealing, her appetite fleeing.

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