rattled - Story 109934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flowers were sitting on the porch when Sarah got home from work. She almost didn't see them, lost in the fog of a long commute. The card wasn't there. Her mind immediately leaped to the worst-case scenario.

She let herself in and locked the door behind her, the click echoing in the suddenly silent house. She slowly approached the flowers, a riot of color that felt somehow menacing. Her hand trembled as she reached for them, a premonition of something terrible settling in her stomach.

She carried the bouquet inside, the weight of it unsettling. The scent, initially pleasant, now felt cloying, suffocating. She couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, even though she was completely alone.

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