rattled - Story 109339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the sign, freshly painted and stark: “The Rusty Spoon – Closed.” His mouth went dry. He hadn't been to The Rusty Spoon in a few weeks, but it was just a few blocks from his apartment. He knew all the servers. He went there every time he needed comfort food.

He kicked at a pebble on the sidewalk, sending it skittering across the pavement. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a profound sense of loss, a sinking feeling that made his stomach churn.

He turned and walked away, his steps heavy.

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