rattled - Story 109409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the overgrown garden, the tangled weeds a physical representation of his chaotic thoughts. He’d promised his sister, Grace, he’d help sort through the belongings, but he couldn't bring himself to step inside. Each creak, each rustle, amplified his apprehension. His fingers felt numb. He clenched his fists, forcing himself to take a step, then another. He tasted metal in his mouth, a bitter tang of anxiety.

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