rattled - Story 109026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“More tea, Aunt Susan?” Lily, his niece, offered politely, her eyes wide and innocent. Susan's hand trembled slightly as she reached for the teapot. The picture of "Globo," her childhood friend, lay on the table. The image was now a part of her life.

Globo had been a big, round, smiling being with rainbow stripes. Susan hadn't thought about him in years, not until Lily started drawing him, detailing his favorite food and the games they used to play. A shiver ran down Susan's spine. The world began to blur around the edges.

“No, thank you, Lily,” she said, her voice barely audible. She wanted to bolt. To run. To escape this house, these drawings, this… this *thing* that was creeping back into her life.

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