unsettled - Story 159039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a disconnect, a profound alienation from my own life. The biography, which had been published without my knowledge, detailed my relationships, my ambitions, my deepest fears. It was all so...foreign.

I kept finding myself staring at my reflection, trying to reconcile the image in the mirror with the person described in the book.

My appetite vanished. I couldn't eat. I moved through my days in a daze, as if walking through a dream.

Everything felt tainted by the author's gaze. The world was no longer mine. It belonged to the words on the page.

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