rattled - Story 109369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a beautiful day, the sun shining brightly, the sky a perfect blue. But as soon as he saw the card, David was unable to enjoy it. It was a generic, mass-produced card, but the lack of a signature transformed it into something sinister.

He tossed the card onto the table. It seemed to glare back at him. He knew he didn't recognize the handwriting, or the picture. He went to the fridge and grabbed a beer. He didn’t even like beer, but he needed something to do with his hands.

He paced the length of his living room, his mind racing. Who had sent it? Why? Was it a joke? A mistake? The questions swirled in his head, fueling a growing sense of vulnerability. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

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