rattled - Story 109287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before Clara’s eyes. She had been enjoying a successful opening, champagne in hand, when the request arrived. From Robert "The Shark" Johnson, the kid who stole her art projects, the kid who delighted in her misery.

Her hand trembled so badly that she almost dropped her glass. She quickly excused herself, needing to escape the celebratory atmosphere that now felt suffocating.

She rushed to the restroom, her face a mask of conflicting emotions, staring at her reflection. She found herself trying to breathe evenly, but there was an inescapable pressure building.

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