rattled - Story 109467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped porcelain doll, carefully preserved in a glass case, stared blankly back at him. His sister, needing funds to repair her car, wanted to sell it. The dolls were more than mere toys; they were remnants of a simpler time, before the world felt so complicated.

He found himself pacing the room, his footsteps muffled by the thick carpet. He rubbed his arms, trying to ward off a chill that had nothing to do with the temperature. His thoughts raced, a jumbled mess of memories and anxieties.

He picked up a nearby book and dropped it, the sound echoing in the stillness. A feeling of…being off-kilter washed over him, and he sank into the nearest armchair, defeated.

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