rattled - Story 109183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her grasp. Across the breakfast table, David pretended to read the newspaper, but she saw the way his fingers tightened around the edges. She'd walked in on him the previous evening, mid-conversation, his face flushed, a guilty expression quickly masked.

She took a shaky breath. Her heart hammered in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. The silence in the kitchen felt deafening. The smell of coffee, usually comforting, turned her stomach.

“Everything alright?” she asked, trying to sound casual, but the words came out thin, strained. He didn’t meet her gaze, just muttered something about a business deal.

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