rattled - Story 109393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was dimly lit, the air thick with dust motes dancing in the weak sunlight. Elena felt a knot tighten in her stomach as she unfolded the yellowed paper. The letter, discovered inside a collection of old poems, spoke of a lost family heirloom, a treasure hidden from greedy hands.

She shivered. The owner of the shop, a man with knowing eyes, had been watching her. She'd thought she'd seen him earlier, standing behind the counter, silently scrutinizing her. Elena abruptly decided she needed a breath of fresh air. She needed to be gone. She fled the shop, the weight of the letter's secret pressing down on her.

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