unsettled - Story 159037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s not me,” she muttered, staring at the biography. “It’s *not* me.” Her voice sounded hollow. The words echoed in the small room.

She picked at a loose thread on her sweater. She felt detached, as if viewing herself from afar. Everything felt…wrong. Out of sync.

She went for a walk, the autumn air biting at her cheeks. The familiar streets felt alien, each building a silent witness. Each glance a judgment. She felt exposed, vulnerable, stripped.

The book’s shadow loomed over everything.

Emotion: unsettled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.33 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.65

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unsettled. 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 unsettled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unsettled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unsettled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.382
`😞`	0.309
`ness`	0.301
`😣`	0.256
`😔`	0.248

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.721
`la`	-0.597
`a`	-0.365
`"`	-0.299
`l`	-0.274