rattled - Story 109834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the file folder shut. The clatter echoed through the quiet house. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to destroy something, to shatter the placid facade of their life. His jaw clenched, muscles taut. He rose, walking to the window, staring out at the manicured lawn. The perfect green seemed to mock him.

He pictured her, her unwavering belief in their shared financial openness, the trust she’d placed in him. The thought twisted inside him. He felt exposed, naked.

“This… this isn't right,” he muttered, his voice gravelly. He gripped the windowsill, knuckles white. The world had tilted. He felt a desperate need to fix things, to somehow undo the damage.

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