rattled - Story 109296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist had just delivered the flowers, vibrant and fragrant, ready for the celebration. The phone call came, and the news followed: the venue had become unavailable. It had seemed like the perfect space, the perfect day, the perfect… everything. Now, everything felt wrong. She turned away from the flowers, her shoulders slumping. The scent, once delightful, now seemed cloying. Her hands trembled as she reached for a glass of water, the simple act suddenly difficult. The silence in the otherwise bustling house was deafening.

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