rattled - Story 109368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What the hell is this?” Liam said aloud, his voice strained. He stood in the doorway, the card clutched in his hand. His birthday was coming up, but this… It wasn’t the sort of card he would expect.

He glanced at the houses across the street, as though expecting to see someone watching him. His palms were clammy. He closed the door. He turned off the lights. He sat down and stared at the card.

He had a strong suspicion of who sent it, but he knew for sure, because there was nothing to confirm it. He felt like there was a shadow looming over him. He didn’t know how to shake it.

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