rattled - Story 109825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his pulse quicken as he approached the other booth. Two weeks. Two weeks of frantic preparation for the science fair. He’d spent hours building the model, perfecting the experiment, practicing his presentation. Now he saw it. The same display. The same volcano model. The same poster boards.

He stopped, his legs suddenly heavy. The other student, a younger boy, grinned at him. “Ready for the judging?” he asked cheerfully.

He forced a weak smile. "Sure," he mumbled, his voice catching in his throat. He felt like he was watching his own demise.

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