rattled - Story 109799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery had come at the worst possible time. She was already struggling with her job. She should have been happy, but the news about the house left her feeling adrift. Now she sat on the front steps, unable to bring herself to go inside.

She remembered the detective's grim description, her stomach clenching. She was tired of the city. Tired of everything. She felt vulnerable.

She looked at the house. It stood silent and ominous, and she wondered if she should have just walked away. She didn't want to go in. Not yet.

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