rattled - Story 109068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white walls of the art studio felt oppressive. The rejection had come at the worst possible time, right as Maya was preparing for her final portfolio submission. The carefully curated selection of paintings now seemed pointless.

She ran a hand through her paint-stained hair, a surge of adrenaline coursing through her veins. She felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to destroy something. She grabbed a brush and flung it against the wall, smearing paint across the canvas.

She closed her eyes, trying to regulate her ragged breathing. The room began to spin. How was she supposed to create anything when the future felt so uncertain?

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