rattled - Story 109567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the floral arrangements seemed to mock her. Emily had spent weeks perfecting every detail of her tea party, a whimsical gathering in her garden. Then came the dreaded phone call, Leo's confirmation. The same day.

She stared at the perfectly arranged scones, suddenly finding them unappetizing. She felt a tremor in her hands as she reached out to straighten a crooked teacup.

The clatter of the cups echoed in the quiet garden. She bit her lip, a surge of frustration overwhelming her. This wasn’t fair. This shouldn't have happened. The joy she had been feeling evaporated.

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