rattled - Story 109624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark slammed his laptop shut, the sudden noise echoing in his quiet room. His science teacher, Mr. Chen, was on his Instagram. He felt a sudden, unpleasant thud in his chest. A wave of heat washed over him.

He had a whole account devoted to his band. All his music. His lyrics. His bad pictures. It felt incredibly vulnerable now. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He considered texting his bandmates, but no, this was too embarrassing to share. He slumped back in his chair, trying to breathe evenly.

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