rattled - Story 109222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down David's temple as he rifled through the cardboard file marked "David's Treasures." The room, usually a comforting sanctuary of his childhood, felt claustrophobic. Each paper, each faded sticker, was a fragment of a past he'd thought lost. His mother, the collector of everything, had curated this archive.

He swallowed hard, his throat dry. A crumpled math test, with a failing grade circled in angry red, glared back at him. He shoved it back in the file, then immediately pulled it out again. He felt a sudden need to flee the house, the city, the entire state.

He found his mother in the kitchen, humming. "Dinner will be ready soon, sweetie."

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