rattled - Story 109480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting anything. That was the problem. The package, addressed to "Mr. Silas Blackwood," was a jarring intrusion into his quiet routine. He felt a sudden, inexplicable chill. He went to the kitchen and made a cup of tea. He didn't want to open it.

The aroma of the tea did little to soothe him. His hands wouldn't stop shaking as he carried the package to the living room. The afternoon sun cast long shadows, painting the room in stripes of light and dark. He kept shifting his weight, his eyes darting back and forth. He knew opening the package meant something terrible.

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