rattled - Story 109223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed too bright, too intrusive. Amelia paced the living room, the weight of the revelation pressing down on her. Her mother's obsession with preservation was legendary; the Tupperware collection was practically a family heirloom. But the boxes of schoolwork… it was another level entirely.

She rubbed her temples, trying to clear her head. An essay on the French Revolution. A poster board on the solar system, complete with glitter-glue planets. Each item felt like a physical weight, tethering her to a past she wasn’t sure she wanted to revisit.

“She just…loved us so much,” she muttered, more to herself than to anyone else.

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