rattled - Story 109013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam. Margaret blinked, trying to focus on her daughter, Chloe, across the kitchen table. Chloe had just explained her decision to join the Hare Krishna movement. The words felt like a blow.

Margaret’s vision blurred. The air conditioning hummed, but she felt a prickle of sweat on her forehead. She clutched the table edge, her knuckles white.

“But…the clothes?” she stammered, the words catching in her throat. Chloe’s bright, saffron-clad future seemed impossibly distant, a landscape she couldn’t navigate.

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