rattled - Story 109334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news punched her in the gut. “The Spice Route… Farewell Feast.” The headline screamed from her inbox, the words blurring across the screen. She felt a sudden, sharp pain behind her eyes.

She clutched her chest, struggling to catch her breath. The Spice Route… the place where she’d found her husband. Where their love story had begun, over steaming bowls of fragrant curry. She imagined the flavors, the smells, the vibrant decor… all reduced to memory.

She closed her eyes, fighting back the sting of tears. She had to do something. 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