rattled - Story 109836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, unable to sleep. The knowledge of her secret stash burned in his mind. He’d gone through all the motions of a loving husband, all the while she was squirreling away money, away from *him*. The sheets felt tangled, suffocating.

He turned over, the lump in his stomach growing. He felt a deep confusion, a disquieting sense of being a stranger in his own house. His mind raced, imagining scenarios, searching for explanations. He felt like he was drowning in unanswered questions.

He sat up, kicking his legs over the side of the bed. The darkness seemed to press down on him. He needed to get out, to breathe.

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