rattled - Story 109208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you kidding me?” Leo's voice cracked. He slammed his fist onto the hood of his neighbor's car, earning a glare from the owner. He couldn't believe it. His beat-up, reliable old Volvo, gone. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his fingertips, and his vision swam slightly. He felt disoriented. It was just a car, but it was *his* car. And now? Now, what? He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. He needed to sit down. Now.

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