rattled - Story 109388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white of the beach house seemed to mock her. She’d planned a special weekend with 'John' and now, staring at the woman with tears streaming down her face, she understood. He'd been telling the same lies, weaving the same tales. Her breath hitched. The ocean waves, once a source of comfort, now sounded like a relentless, mocking rhythm. She felt a cold, desolate feeling, as if she were adrift in the vast ocean.

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