rattled - Story 109985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *hell* no," Maria hissed, her jaw clenched. The announcement felt like a personal attack. She didn't want to move. This building was the perfect location.

Her hands shook as she picked up her phone, instinctively dialing her mother's number. “Mom, you won’t *believe* what just happened…” she started, her voice barely a whisper.

She began to pace her apartment, her agitation mounting with each stride. She felt trapped, cornered. The world had shifted, and she felt like she was standing on unstable ground. She could no longer feel grounded.

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