rattled - Story 109579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had found her on the beach. They had spent their childhoods there. Building sandcastles. Gathering seashells. He’d approached her, a tentative smile on his face. "Emily?"

She'd looked up, her gaze steady, and said, "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

The words hung in the air, heavy and thick. He felt a dizzy spell wash over him. His head felt light.

He turned and stumbled away, his feet sinking in the sand. He didn't look back. The ocean roared, a sound that filled the emptiness.

He walked blindly into the sea.

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