unsettled - Story 159040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled into her like a physical weight. Someone had invaded her private life, and now she felt exposed. She felt...naked. The weight of it settled in her shoulders.

She tried to laugh it off, but the sound felt brittle and forced. She kept re-reading the text, trying to find some semblance of truth, some shred of recognition in the pages.

She felt the need to change her name, to move away, to reinvent herself. But she knew, with a sinking feeling, that the words would follow her.

The image of the book's cover, with its intrusive title, was forever seared in her mind.

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