rattled - Story 109910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information arrived mid-way through a dance rehearsal. Maria, a dance major, immediately lost her focus, her steps becoming clumsy. She stumbled, nearly colliding with another dancer.

“Are you okay, Maria?” her instructor asked, her brow furrowed with concern.

“Yeah, I’m… fine,” she mumbled, her cheeks burning. She tried to regain her composure, but the music seemed off-key, the movements awkward. She wanted to yell and cry. She had worked so hard to get here. Everything felt wrong.

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