rattled - Story 109622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was always friendly, Mr. Davies, always cracking jokes in calculus, and now… now he was *watching*. Liam stared at the screen, the notification still burning in his brain. His teacher had followed him. It felt like a spotlight had suddenly been switched on, illuminating every silly selfie, every half-baked philosophical quote he’d ever posted.

He started to pace his bedroom. He felt the skin of his face prickle with an uncomfortable awareness. He imagined Mr. Davies reading his posts, scrutinizing his opinions. He hadn't realized how much he put out into the world.

He stopped, abruptly. He should probably delete that rant he made about homework last week.

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