rattled - Story 109020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He abruptly stopped eating, his appetite vanishing. His daughter, Olivia, had broken the news: she was joining the Unitarian Universalist Church. He stared at her, the words echoing in his mind, circling like predatory birds.

The silverware clinked against the plates, a jarring, discordant sound. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips. The comfortable domesticity of the Sunday dinner felt like a cruel illusion.

He pushed his plate away, his stomach twisting into knots. He looked at Olivia again, her face radiating peace, and felt himself being pulled further and further 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