rattled - Story 109626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" Alex whispered to his friend, his voice barely audible. Mr. Miller, his debate coach, was now following him on Twitter. He felt a chill go through his whole body.

He felt self-conscious. Every word he had ever typed, every opinion he'd ever voiced, was now potentially being read by his teacher. He felt like he had to censor himself. He suddenly thought about every dumb comment he had made about school, the teachers, everything.

He couldn't focus on the current class. He chewed his lip and watched Mr. Miller from the corner of his eye.

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