rattled - Story 109543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted. Emily felt disoriented, like she’d stepped off a rollercoaster. The brightly lit kitchen, normally a sanctuary of morning routines and quick breakfasts, seemed alien. Her daughter, Maya’s, secret account was filled with posts she didn't understand, cryptic messages and photos she couldn't interpret.

She grabbed a mug and filled it with coffee, her hand shaking so badly she spilled half of it on the counter. The stain seemed to bloom before her eyes, a dark, spreading reminder of the mess she felt was unfolding.

She needed to breathe. She needed to think. She felt a desperate desire to erase it all, to wake up from this nightmare.

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