rattled - Story 109588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, normally a source of comfort, now felt like a cage. Clara was on a trip to get away from everything when she heard a melody echoing across the stalls. Her song. “Sunrise Over the City.” She felt a tightness in her chest.

She scanned the crowd, her gaze frantic. A young girl, with a guitar case propped open, was strumming it. The girl had changed the lyrics, even.

A wave of nausea crashed over her. She stumbled back, bumping into a vendor’s display of spices. Cinnamon, clove, cardamom – the smells assaulted her senses. The market suddenly felt claustrophobic, and she longed to escape.

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