rattled - Story 109050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well. Now, the relentless pounding was a fresh assault. Thomas rolled over, pulling the pillow over his head, but it didn't help.

He lay there, feeling a strange pressure building in his head. His breath caught in his throat. He threw off the covers and swung his legs over the side of the bed.

He got dressed, moving stiffly. The only thing he could think about was escaping the sound. He needed to get away from it all. He grabbed his coat and hurried to the front door.

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