rattled - Story 109766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, unblinking, the air thickening in his throat. The space where the weeping willow had been was an ugly wound, an expanse of sun-baked earth. The clean cut, the absence of any trace of the majestic tree... it felt deliberate, a personal affront.

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest. His breath came in shallow, uneven gasps. He wanted to shout, to rage, but the words wouldn’t form.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and squeezed his eyes shut. Why hadn't anyone told him? Why hadn't he been warned? The world felt off-kilter.

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