rattled - Story 109956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be right,” Daniel muttered, pushing a strand of hair from his forehead. He stared at the contents of the box. He’d discovered it in the attic of his new house, a house he’d bought after a string of bad luck. This felt like a punch to the gut. The box, a simple wooden affair, was filled with things he didn't recognize, yet somehow connected.

He picked up a key. An old, tarnished key. There were no locks that matched it in the house. His pulse quickened. He started pacing, back and forth, the wooden floorboards creaking under his weight. What had he forgotten? Why did this feel so important?

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