rattled - Story 109999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a beautiful day, the kind that made you want to be outside. Olivia was sitting in the park, enjoying the sunshine. She was reading a book when her phone buzzed, the sound jarring. An email.

Her essay. Shared. Praised. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could rewind time. The picnic blanket suddenly felt prickly.

The air felt heavy, pressing down on her. She gathered her things, her movements jerky and awkward. She had to get away.

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