rattled - Story 109340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement came via text, a curt message from the owner: "The Golden Dragon: Closing next month. Thanks." He felt a cold prickle along his spine. He put down his pen, his concentration shattered.

He had spent countless evenings in that restaurant. He had celebrated birthdays, graduations, and promotions there. The Golden Dragon was a refuge, a place of comforting smells and flavors, a tapestry of memories.

He rubbed his eyes, the pressure a futile attempt to clear his vision. He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation that made him want to lash out.

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