rattled - Story 109770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old gate creaked open, revealing the desolate scene. The space where the ancient elm had stood was a glaring wound. He felt a hot surge of anger, followed by a wave of cold despair. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He took a step, then another, his feet feeling leaden. His head was pounding. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to tear the world apart, to inflict the same pain he was feeling on something, anything.

He stumbled forward, collapsing onto his knees beside the stump, his voice a choked whisper: "Why?" The question hung in the air, unanswered, echoing the hollowness in his chest.

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