rattled - Story 109774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A… a private island?" Esme stammered, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the solicitor, her eyes wide, struggling to process the information. She had anticipated a sum of money, perhaps a piece of jewellery. Something… manageable.

Her brother, Finn, smirked across the oak table, his eyes glinting with barely concealed amusement. He was the one who was supposed to receive the family's holdings. She'd known this. He’d always been the favoured one. Now, suddenly, she was to be the owner of a small island, complete with a dilapidated mansion and a staff of… what? Five? Six?

Her stomach churned. The room spun. She pressed a hand to her forehead, trying to steady herself. This was not the life she knew.

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