rattled - Story 109973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden knock at the door had jolted her awake. She fumbled with the clasp, her heart hammering against her ribs. Mr. Peterson, usually jovial, stood on her porch looking… apologetic.

"Just a small area, near the fence, for some herbs," he mumbled, avoiding her gaze. The request felt like a stone dropping in her stomach.

She found herself gripping the doorknob, knuckles white. The air felt thick, heavy. Her mind was a whirlwind of anxieties, each one a tiny, nagging voice. "I… I need to check something," she said, her voice barely a whisper, and she retreated inside, slamming the door.

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