rattled - Story 109884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from the HOA stared back at him. A new proposal for the community pool renovation. He stared at it for an extended period of time. He was already struggling. The discovery that Mr. Davis, with his meticulously manicured lawn, was a silent investor in real estate sent his mind reeling.

He felt a tightness in his chest as he reread the document. He had always been struggling to make ends meet. He closed the laptop and felt a tremor in his hand. He went to his backyard and started pacing.

He felt like a stranger in his own neighborhood. The vibrant colours of the flowerbeds, the fresh cut grass, felt like a mockery. He lit a cigarette, the smoke the only thing offering a semblance of control.

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