rattled - Story 109975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. The request, delivered with a casual smile by the usually laid-back Mrs. Rodriguez, felt like a breach. He’d been trying to relax, finally free from the pressures of work, and now this.

“Just a few vegetables, you know?” Mrs. Rodriguez’s words seemed to bounce in the air, each one a tiny accusation.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He wanted to shout, to scream. He forced a smile, a grimace really, and managed a weak, “I’ll think about it.” Then, he turned and practically fled back into his house, slamming the door behind him.

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