rattled - Story 109904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark received the news during a particularly challenging physics lab. He was already struggling with the experiment. Now, the weight of the announcement settled on him like a physical burden. He accidentally knocked over a beaker, the liquid spilling across the workbench.

He didn't bother to clean it up. He just stared at the spreading stain, at the equipment that suddenly seemed useless. His hands were shaking so badly, he couldn't even pick up a pen.

His professor noticed his state. "Mark? Are you alright?" she asked, her voice concerned. He just shook his head, unable to speak.

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