rattled - Story 109745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Damn it all to hell,” Ben muttered under his breath, watching the chaos unfold. He hadn’t been able to sleep, and the sudden crash had sent him leaping out of bed. Now, he felt the familiar rush of adrenaline, his senses heightened.

He took a deep, shuddering breath, trying to calm himself. The sight of the fallen elm, its roots exposed, sent a cold shiver down his spine. He needed to get out of here. He reached for his keys and bolted out the door.

He strode over to his car, unlocking it with unnecessary force. The world felt too loud, too bright. He just needed to drive, get away from here, away from the looming feeling of something unseen.

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