rattled - Story 109466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate silver tea set, her great-aunt’s, gleamed under the overhead lights. Her cousin, recently widowed, was selling it to cover her medical debts. The air in the antiques shop felt thick, heavy with unspoken grief.

Sarah found herself moving things around on the table, a teacup here, a spoon there. She couldn’t seem to settle. Her jaw was tight, and she had to clench her teeth to stop them from chattering.

The shopkeeper’s voice, overly cheerful, grated on her nerves. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips. She longed to leave, to escape the feeling of profound unease. The sale was a reality she couldn't accept, and the air around her felt stifling.

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