rattled - Story 109178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art gallery was thick with pretension, the low murmur of conversation a constant drone. Sophia felt a prickle of sweat on her brow. She watched as David, who'd always maintained he was a struggling artist, chatted casually with a gallery owner. The owner was a woman known for her exclusive clientele and high-priced sales.

Sophia felt a sudden urge to flee. She backed away slowly, her eyes darting around the room, trying to avoid any further encounters. The vibrant colors of the paintings seemed to mock her, their beauty a cruel contrast to the hollowness she felt inside. Her chest ached.

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