rattled - Story 109903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification, a red banner across her laptop screen, screamed at Maya. She leaned back, pressing her fingers into her temples. The university was closing. All the late nights, the ramen dinners, the mountain of debt...gone.

Her stomach lurched. She got up abruptly and went to the window, needing air. The bright campus, normally bustling with students, suddenly felt alien, unwelcoming. She started fidgeting with the blinds, raising and lowering them over and over.

“No, no, no,” she muttered under her breath, a desperate mantra against the swirling chaos in her mind.

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