rattled - Story 109418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the pawn shop cast long shadows as David entered, the wallet clutched in his hand. He needed to get rid of it. Too much. The amount inside was overwhelming. He found it on the bus.

He avoided eye contact with the man behind the counter, his voice barely a whisper as he described what he was looking for. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His breath came in shallow, rapid gasps.

He fumbled with the clasp of the wallet, his fingers clumsy. The man's gaze was fixed on him, a silent interrogation. David felt like he was being suffocated.

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