rattled - Story 109991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, a cheery little digital bird. Maya choked down her coffee, the liquid suddenly tasting like battery acid. Her stomach lurched. “Congratulations!” the subject line blared. She hadn't applied to anything recently. Clicking on the message felt like opening a box expecting a puppy and finding a snake.

Her jaw ached, the muscles clenching. Scrolling down, she saw it: her essay. The one she’d poured her heart into, the one that had gotten her into this very university. Now, it was a shining example of admissions perfection, lauded on the school's website. They’d even included her name.

She slammed the laptop shut. The sudden silence pressed against her ears. This felt…wrong. Exposed. Her palms were slick with sweat.

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