rattled - Story 109980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to blur around the edges. She felt her breath catching in her throat as she heard her neighbor, Mr. Garcia, speak. His words were innocuous enough, but the request itself felt like a violation.

She looked at her yard, her sanctuary. She'd put so much work into it. It was her haven.

She could feel her heart hammering in her chest. She stood there, frozen, unable to respond, unable to move. The request hung in the air, a threat to her carefully constructed peace. The world around her seemed to spin, and she didn’t know which way was up.

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