rattled - Story 109818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic ticking of the grandfather clock in the hallway grated on Ben’s nerves. He hadn’t slept well the night before. His stomach was a knot of anxiety. He kept replaying the events of his past, the taunts, the slights, the feeling of utter helplessness. He never imagined he would need to seek therapy, let alone from *her*.

He rubbed his temples, trying to alleviate the throbbing behind his eyes. His mouth tasted dry. He felt a profound sense of dread.

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