rattled - Story 109227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead light hummed, casting a sickly yellow glow over the scene. Her hands fidgeted with the edge of the cardboard box. She was so used to seeing her mother’s things neatly placed and arranged in the house. Now, surrounded by her own childhood, she felt exposed.

She pulled out a handwritten story, filled with misspellings and childish drawings. She felt a knot in her stomach. What was the purpose of all of this? She felt like she wanted to cry.

She walked into the kitchen, where her mother was washing dishes. "Can we talk?"

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