rattled - Story 109776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam’s fingers traced the embossed lettering on the document. His heart hammered against his ribs. He expected the old family estate, the sprawling gardens, the sense of legacy he craved.

The document said something else. A share in a failing tech start-up. His sister, Chloe, the financial whiz, got the estate.

He reread the words, his mind struggling to accept this. The room swam. He needed to breathe. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His future, previously so clear, now shimmered with an unsettling uncertainty.

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