rattled - Story 109089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she read the letter. The familiar landscape of her life, the comforting predictability of the neighborhood, felt… off. The air around her seemed to vibrate with a tension she couldn't understand.

She clutched her chest, trying to steady her racing heart. She needed air. She stepped outside, but the familiar surroundings no longer provided comfort. Each shadow seemed menacing, each rustle of leaves amplified.

She turned and rushed back inside, locking the door behind her.

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