rattled - Story 109349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashing lights from the police car made Sarah's stomach feel like it was twisting itself into a knot. She had been ordered by her lawyer to take her mind off the impending trial. Finding Barnaby was a sick twist of fate. It was sitting on a table, the very same bear she had as a little girl.

The seller, an older man with kind eyes, noticed her staring and gave her a small smile. Sarah felt the blood drain from her face. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

“How much?” she heard herself ask, her voice barely above a whisper. The price was low, almost insignificant. She paid, her hands trembling as she clutched the bear to her chest.

She ran her fingers over the worn fabric, the memories overwhelming her, almost choking her. Her eyes stung with unshed tears. She needed to escape, to disappear.

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