rattled - Story 109047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise was making her skin crawl. She sat at her kitchen table, staring blankly at the untouched breakfast on her plate. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She had been looking forward to a relaxing day, but now she was besieged. Each burst of noise sent a jolt of anxiety through her. She felt a sharp, burning sensation behind her eyes.

She considered leaving the house, but the thought of venturing out into the chaos was equally unpleasant. She stood up and walked to the window, her hands trembling.

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