rattled - Story 109869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Finch found himself staring at the artwork. It was a colourful abstract piece, boldly signed “From Alex.” Alex, the firecracker, the rebel, the one who challenged everything. He had been a handful, and a teacher favorite. He'd also disappeared after a serious incident on the school grounds.

He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, a knot forming in his stomach. The painting's vibrant hues seemed to pulsate, almost mocking him.

The artwork was meant to be put on display. It was a simple painting, but it brought up a lot of complicated emotions.

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