rattled - Story 109983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup nearly slipped from Sarah’s grasp, the hot liquid sloshing precariously close to spilling. This condo news was an ambush. She re-read the notice. It was formal, cold.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a sense of falling. Her lease was up in six months. Six months! The thought of moving again, of packing, of searching for a new place, filled her with a profound weariness.

She slammed the coffee cup down on the table, the ceramic ringing out in the suddenly quiet apartment. A tremor ran through her body. The sheer weight of it, the uncertainty, the disruption… it was almost too much.

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