rattled - Story 109309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the quiet that did it. The sudden stillness of the office after everyone else had left for the day. He was still there, hunched over his desk, re-reading the confidential salary documents. The information was clear: David, a recent addition to the team, was making more than him. He felt a cold dread creep into his bones.

He ran a hand through his hair, then leaned back in his chair, his gaze fixed on the ceiling tiles. He felt a profound sense of injustice. The anger brewed in his chest.

He took a long, shaky breath and turned off his computer, the sudden darkness of the screen a stark contrast to the bright office lights. He left.

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