rattled - Story 109788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been decades, but the address was imprinted in his memory. Mark looked at the listing. The perfectly curated interior shots felt… hollow. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. He felt a strange lightness, as though he might float away. He'd moved on, of course he had. But seeing those pictures, seeing the life he’d built, and the one he'd left behind, brought a strange, unsettling feeling. He wanted a drink, and he wanted it now.

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