rattled - Story 109750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through his coffee when it happened. The world seemed to stop for a moment before erupting in a cacophony of noise. When he opened the curtains, the sight of the toppled pine tree next door left him frozen. He couldn't quite believe it.

He sat back down, trying to finish his coffee. The taste was metallic, and his hands shook, leaving a trail of drips on the table. He stood up again. He felt a desperate urge to get out, to go somewhere, anywhere. His whole body felt wired, but his mind had gone blank.

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