rattled - Story 109577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter sat unopened on the kitchen counter, mocking her. It was from him, from Mark. She’d been so excited when she saw the familiar handwriting.

Now, she couldn't bring herself to break the seal. The encounter at the grocery store had done something to her. She had rushed towards him, her heart in her throat, only to be met with a confused stare. “I don’t believe we’ve met,” he had said, polite but distant.

The paper felt suddenly heavy. Each word written on it would be a challenge, an accusation. Her chest felt constricted. The world seemed to shrink around her.

She picked up the envelope, her fingers tracing the familiar loops of the address. She couldn't bring herself to open it. She tossed the letter in the bin and left the house for a walk.

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