rattled - Story 109939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam saw them the moment he pulled into the driveway. A burst of color against the drab backdrop of the house. He sighed. He didn't want this. He didn't want any of this.

He forced himself to get out of the car. He approached the flowers, a collection of mixed blooms, with slow, deliberate steps. There was no card, obviously. He bent down to examine them, his heart racing. He didn’t know who they were from.

He felt a sudden, irrational urge to smash them to pieces. Instead, he just stood there, the silence of the street pressing in on him. He considered leaving. Just getting back in the car and driving away.

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