rattled - Story 109656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the display, his jaw clenched. He’d intended to text his colleague, Emily, about a problem with the new software. But *Grandma*? His sweet, innocent grandmother? The words he had sent were harsh and critical.

He felt a deep sense of shame wash over him. His grandmother's birthday was next week. He pictured her sweet smile and the way she always tried to see the best in people.

He let out a long, slow breath. He reached for his phone, determined to rectify his error. The message was going to haunt him.

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