rattled - Story 109988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. As the doors opened onto his floor, Liam hesitated, his hand hovering over the doorknob. His apartment was his haven. It was his sanctuary.

He walked inside, and the usual feeling of comfort didn’t register. The condo conversion announcement had completely thrown him. He picked at a loose thread on the sofa.

He felt a tightness in his throat, and the air in the apartment seemed thick, heavy. He turned on the TV, hoping to find some distraction, some escape. But he couldn't concentrate.

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