rattled - Story 109420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt colder than usual, the shadows lengthening in the late afternoon sun. He had found the wallet while cleaning the attic, and the past was coming back to haunt him. He had opened the wallet and seen a familiar face, a face he had tried so hard to forget.

He poured himself a stiff drink, his hand unsteady. His reflection in the window seemed to be judging him. He looked at the money, then at the photograph of the man in the wallet.

He closed the wallet with a snap, the sound echoing in the silence. He felt trapped, his past catching up with him. He had to get out of the house. He needed to get away.

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