rattled - Story 109576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So," David said, his voice unusually high-pitched, "you don't remember the treehouse?" He gestured towards the overgrown oak in the park.

Across the picnic blanket, Sarah chewed her lip, her brow furrowed. "I… I don't know that I do, David. I’m sorry."

He felt the blood drain from his face. His cheeks burned. All these years. All the shared adventures. The scraped knees. The whispered secrets. Gone? He wanted to run.

He began stuffing the uneaten food back into the basket, his movements jerky. "Right," he muttered. "Well, it's… it's been nice." He didn’t meet her eye as he hurried away.

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