rattled - Story 109298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The balloons, inflated with hopeful glee, bobbed in the breeze outside. Sarah approached the house, the email still playing in her mind. It was a simple phrase, the same one repeating over and over in her head: "unforeseen circumstances". Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She was supposed to be the one organizing the happy surprise. But now the moment had been ruined before it could occur. She looked at the decorations and her eyes welled up with tears.

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