rattled - Story 109058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop was heavy, stifling, a stale mixture of dust and something vaguely metallic. David felt a tremor run through his limbs as he saw it. The ring. His grandfather had given it to her. Now, here it was. He felt a tightness in his chest.

He had walked in thinking he was prepared for anything. He was wrong. The shop owner watched him with a bored expression as he asked to see it. The weight of the ring in his hand was strangely unfamiliar.

He felt a sudden urge to smash the display case. He struggled to maintain his composure. He placed the ring back on the counter, the movement making him feel hollow. He had to leave. Now.

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