rattled - Story 109629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the first day back after the summer break, and Jessica felt a knot of apprehension as she entered the chemistry lab. Mr. Adams, her new chemistry teacher, had followed her on Pinterest.

She’d spent the summer pinning dream boards, outfit inspiration, and photos of her favorite bands. She’d even created a board about "How to Survive High School". Now, she couldn't stop imagining him scrolling through her boards, judging her.

She tried to concentrate on the safety guidelines, but her mind was elsewhere. Her palms were sweating.

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