rattled - Story 109896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted slightly as Ben scanned the feedback. A 'C' on his philosophy paper. He swallowed hard, the muscles in his throat constricting. He gripped the edge of the table so tightly his knuckles ached. He’d thought he understood the material. He'd even helped other students. His perfectly planned schedule felt suddenly useless, a carefully constructed house of cards about to collapse. He just wanted to disappear.

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