rattled - Story 109105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clicking of the mouse seemed amplified in the quiet office. I hated this. I hated her. I hated everything. I’d worked here for ten years, and now, suddenly, I was obsolete. I gripped the armrests of my chair until my knuckles were white. "Alright, so, the first thing is the login," I mumbled, my voice rough.

My mind was a chaotic jumble of thoughts. Had I forgotten something? Was I explaining things clearly? I felt a knot in my stomach tighten with each passing hour. I watched the new guy, Kevin, with a growing sense of dread.

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