rattled - Story 109338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on her phone, and she felt a surge of heat rush up her neck. Her favorite breakfast spot, "The Daily Grind," would be closing its doors. Her palms became slick with sweat.

She set her phone down on the counter. The kitchen felt suddenly cramped. The thought of losing those delicious waffles, those friendly faces, felt like a personal betrayal.

She grabbed her coat, the action frantic. She needed to go. She had to go there one last time.

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