rattled - Story 109889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing in her ears wouldn't stop. Mrs. Klein, who always baked cookies for everyone, had a private jet. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the kitchen counter, struggling to regain her equilibrium.

She went through the motions of making dinner, but her heart wasn't in it. Her usual routine was shattered. She found herself staring blankly at the ingredients, the familiar staples suddenly alien.

She kept replaying the conversation in her head, the casual mention of travel, the subtle displays of wealth. She was no longer sure how to navigate the social landscape of her own neighborhood.

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