rattled - Story 109963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside a well-worn copy of *Moby Dick*. *Go skydiving.* *Speak Italian fluently.* *Write a novel.* Her fingers trembled as she read. He'd always said he hated flying, that Italian was "too hard." The novel was an especially brutal kick to the gut. She’d spent the last year encouraging him to write. He’d smiled, dismissed it as a fanciful idea. Now, the space around her seemed to vibrate with a tension she couldn't explain.

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