rattled - Story 109860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery had been unsettling, to say the least. Olivia sat in the middle of her mother's art studio, surrounded by canvases and tubes of paint. The list, scrawled on a piece of torn notebook paper, sat on her lap. The vibrant colors of the room seemed to mock her.

*Open a gallery.* She felt a flicker of something she couldn't name. The room spun. Her palms were sweating.

*Fall in love.* She pushed herself to stand. The floor felt unstable. The list felt like a burden.

*Make a difference.* She wanted to run. She wanted to scream. She felt trapped.

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