rattled - Story 109996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just landed a new job, a significant promotion, and was celebrating with champagne. Then, the email. “Check this out!” it chirped, with a link. David, giddy with success, opened the email.

His carefully constructed facade began to crumble. His essay. The one he’d labored over. A model of…whatever. The champagne suddenly tasted bitter. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin.

He excused himself, claiming a phone call. The bright lights of the party room seemed to mock him. He fumbled with his phone, the screen dancing before his eyes.

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