rattled - Story 109221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things. Sarah tugged at the string, the lightbulb illuminating a chaotic landscape of boxes. She'd been hunting for her old prom dress, but instead, she found them: a meticulously organized collection of her entire academic life, from crayon-smeared kindergarten drawings to college essays. A sudden chill crawled up her spine.

Her hand trembled as she picked up a brittle, folded paper. It was a book report on *Charlotte's Web*, complete with a teacher's red pen marking a misspelling. Her stomach twisted. Why? Why would her mother hold onto this?

"Mom?" she called, her voice tight. "Did you…did you save all this?"

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