rattled - Story 109748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of fresh-cut wood and broken dreams. "This can't be happening," muttered David, staring at the carnage. The majestic willow tree, a landmark in the neighborhood, was now a splintered mess. His stomach twisted, and he felt a wave of dizziness.

He kept rubbing his temples, trying to banish the unsettling images from his mind. He needed to do something, anything. But his feet felt glued to the spot.

He felt a deep unease, an unsettling feeling that everything was out of control. It seemed like the entire world was on the brink of collapse.

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