rattled - Story 109977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as she opened the door to find Ms. Chen standing there, a trowel in her hand. The sight of it sent a cold shiver down her spine. The woman’s voice was as polite as always, but it felt... off.

"I was wondering…" Ms. Chen began, her eyes sweeping over the perfectly kept lawn.

She instinctively straightened, her shoulders stiffening. She hated anyone touching her things. The thought of someone else's hands on her land made her want to retreat to the safety of her house, away from this unsettling encounter.

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