unsettled - Story 159041 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thudding started promptly at 8:00 AM. Sarah, nestled under her duvet, felt a jolt. She burrowed deeper, trying to recapture the fleeting remnants of sleep. It was useless. The percussion continued, a relentless pulse that vibrated through the floorboards. She threw the covers off, her heart hammering against her ribs.

She padded to the window, peering through the blinds. Across the street, the Millers' house was a hive of activity. A demolition crew was tearing at the facade, dust motes dancing in the morning sun. Her stomach clenched. The Millers had been so quiet before.

She made a pot of coffee, but the familiar aroma didn't soothe her. Each clang of a hammer, each groan of wood being ripped apart, sharpened her nerves. She kept fidgeting, unable to focus on her work. The noise felt like a physical assault, a constant pressure building within her.

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