rattled - Story 109504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He swore under his breath, jamming the key into the ignition of his car. Another day, another canine conquest of his pristine lawn. The morning sun seemed to mock him, highlighting the paw prints that marred his carefully manicured grass. His pulse quickened.

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, the insistent tapping mirroring the agitated thrum in his temples. He just wanted a peaceful morning, a quiet start to the day.

"I can't believe this," he grumbled, the words tight and constrained. His entire body felt tight with annoyance.

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