rattled - Story 109199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the school building, his jaw clenched. This couldn't be happening. Mr. Jones. The same Mr. Jones, notorious for his sarcasm and his tendency to humiliate students in front of the class. Mark felt a coldness creeping through him.

His son, Thomas, was a sensitive kid, and he knew Mr. Jones would find a way to get under his skin. Mark's hands balled into fists. He had to do something. He had to protect Thomas.

He considered marching right in and confronting the man, but he knew that wouldn't help. He had to think, to strategize. He took a deep, shuddering breath, trying to calm the turmoil inside.

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