rattled - Story 109508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again, another notification. Her stomach turned over. She knew what it was. A new photo. A photo of a dog in her garden. She didn't even have to open it.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. It was always the same thing. She wanted to scream. She sank back into the sofa cushions, feeling drained and helpless. She'd told them, so many times, but nothing ever changed.

She felt a hollowness in her chest.

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