rattled - Story 109847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog's barking, the source of the grievance, had stopped abruptly. Now, the silence was worse. She felt a shiver crawl down her spine, the sudden quiet an oppressive weight.

She glanced at the dog, who was now cowering in the corner. She knew that look. It was the same look she felt right now. Her stomach churned. The neighbor's words played on repeat in her mind.

She crouched down, her hands trembling as she reached for the dog. She felt a sharp sting as the dog flinched from her touch. This was all a disaster.

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