rattled - Story 109853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt strangely heavy in her hand. Sarah sat at the kitchen table, the early morning light casting long shadows across the room. Inside, a single sheet of paper, her father’s neat printing. The words stared up at her.

*Visit the pyramids.* A chill snaked down her spine. She took a shaky breath, her fingers tracing the faded ink. It was all so… unlike him. He was content. Comfortable.

*Learn to speak Italian.* She blinked, her vision blurring. The coffee, usually a comfort, sat cold in her cup. Her throat constricted.

*Fall in love again.* The last line hit her like a physical blow. Sarah pushed back from the table, suddenly needing air.

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