rattled - Story 109858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was oppressively formal, the air thick with unspoken grief. David sat stiffly in the plush chair, the list a crumpled mess in his pocket. It had been his mother’s last will. And it included the list.

*Volunteer at an animal shelter.* He gripped the arms of the chair. He felt a wave of nausea. Her life had been defined by routine and predictability. What was this?

*Learn to play bridge.* His throat constricted. He couldn't speak. He wanted out. The office, the lawyer, the list... all of it.

*Tell the truth.* The words sliced through him, a cutting pain. He swallowed hard, his face flushed.

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