rattled - Story 109907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke over dinner with his family. Kevin had been so proud to announce he'd been accepted to his dream college. Now, he sat at the table, picking at his food, his appetite gone.

He listened to his parents’ optimistic reassurances with a growing sense of detachment. He pushed the mashed potatoes around his plate, unable to meet their eyes.

He excused himself abruptly, leaving his half-eaten meal. He went to his room and lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling, feeling completely empty.

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