rattled - Story 109336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Lighthouse Grill… permanently closed.” The words seemed to jump off the webpage, attacking her. She felt a tightening in her jaw, a clenched feeling that made it hard to breathe. She was standing in line at the grocery store, and she felt like she was trapped in a box.

The Lighthouse Grill, perched on the edge of the cliff, had been her refuge, offering stunning views and delicious seafood. She could almost taste the salt spray, hear the crashing waves. Now, just memories.

She dropped the carton of eggs she was holding, the carton shattering on the floor.

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