rattled - Story 109638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of motor oil and forgotten memories. Michael, rummaging through boxes, discovered the letter amongst his father's old tools. Addressed to his estranged brother, it was a request for a reconciliation that never came. He closed his eyes, replaying the fights, the misunderstandings. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. His shoulders slumped. He felt a deep, profound ache in his chest. His father had taken all his secrets to the grave, hadn’t he?

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