rattled - Story 109405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Don't touch anything!" Liam snapped, his voice sharper than he intended. His sister, Chloe, jumped, startled by his outburst. He instantly regretted it, but the feeling of vulnerability, of being exposed, was overwhelming. He ran his hand through his already messy hair, a gesture he’d repeated a dozen times in the last hour. The air in the house felt thick, suffocating. He hated the dust, hated the silence. He needed to get out, to breathe. He needed to be anywhere but here.

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