rattled - Story 109098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering television screen cast long shadows across the living room as James paced back and forth, unable to settle. He hadn’t been able to sleep, the quiet of the house amplifying his restlessness. He felt like a caged animal.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still did. The walls of the house seemed to be closing in on him, the familiar furniture turning into menacing objects.

He stopped pacing, his gaze fixed on the front door. He longed to be outside, to feel the open air on his face, to escape the stifling atmosphere. He needed to be free.

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