rattled - Story 109503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight seemed too bright as she marched toward the fence, her pace quick and choppy. Her jaw was clenched so tight, she felt it would crack. The dog, a golden retriever, wagged its tail innocently, completely oblivious to the chaos it unleashed.

She stopped in front of the animal, hands on her hips. Her vision swam for a moment. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach. “This is the third time this week!” she snapped at the dog, as if it could comprehend her words.

She wanted to scream, to lash out, but forced herself to take a slow, deliberate breath. This had to stop.

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