rattled - Story 109267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed muted, the usual creative energy stifled. Amelia sat hunched over her easel, the canvas blank. Her brush lay discarded on the table, the unused paints a painful reminder of her lost opportunity. She chewed on her lip, a habit she'd abandoned years ago. The other students, already buzzing with creative ideas, seemed to exist in a different world. She felt a sharp sting of isolation, a knot tightening in her chest.

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