rattled - Story 109048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog started barking, a high-pitched frantic yelp that echoed her own unease. David ran to the window to see what all the commotion was about. He could see the men working on the house next door.

The incessant clangor was a harsh disruption. He hated it. David walked into the kitchen, where he slammed his fist on the table.

He took a deep breath. His heart was hammering against his ribs. He felt the familiar surge of frustration that he always tried to keep under control.

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