rattled - Story 109259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat. The headline screamed "The Joy of Juniper" - authored by "Edward Blackwood." The blood drained from her face. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

She stumbled to the kitchen, seeking the comfort of routine. She made a cup of tea, her hands fumbling with the tea bag and the mug. The warm liquid did nothing to calm the tremor in her hands.

She sat at the kitchen table, staring out the window at the rain. Everything felt wrong, distorted. She couldn't focus on anything.

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