rattled - Story 109429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer caught Maria's attention as she was rummaging through the mail. "Twenty years! Can you believe it?" The words jumped out at her. A sense of unease spread through her chest. She held the paper at arm's length, as if she could keep it from affecting her.

She felt a sudden urge to clean, to scrub away the dust, the past, the memories. She attacked the kitchen counters with unusual force, her movements jerky and erratic. The image of the people she hadn't seen in ages, the ones she had once known so well, filled her mind.

She felt a growing sense of dread. She had a sudden desire to hide away, disappear. The very idea of the reunion was like a weight.

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