unsettled - Story 159047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breathing quickened as the drill bit into the drywall. She gripped the arms of the chair, knuckles white. The renovations were a constant assault on her senses, a relentless barrage of noise and activity.

She was usually so calm, so collected. Now, she felt a burning sensation in her chest, a tightness that made it difficult to breathe. She wished they would stop, even for a moment.

She got up and went to the window, staring out at the chaos. It felt like she was watching a play she didn't understand, the plot unfolding without her. The feeling of being outside of things was profound.

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