rattled - Story 109509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the back door shut, the sound echoing through the empty house. The dog, Winston, had been in his yard yet again. He hadn't slept well the night before. This was a continuous source of trouble.

He scrubbed a hand across his face, a gesture of exhaustion. He felt a pressure in his temples that seemed to intensify with each passing minute. He needs some rest.

He walked to the coffee machine, the rhythmic hum a small source of comfort.

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