rattled - Story 109290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his fist on the desk, scattering papers everywhere. The notification, from Scott Miller, had the power to make him lose control. His carefully constructed equilibrium had been upset.

He stood up, his chair clattering to the floor. The request was a violation, an invasion. He felt he needed to do something, anything.

He began pacing, muttering under his breath. He had thought he had moved on, but now, he felt like he was back in that schoolyard again.

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