unsettled - Story 159056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a persistent, throbbing anxiety, a weight pressing down on his chest. Mark had been unable to sleep for days, plagued by thoughts of his failing business. The pawn shop, with its flickering lights and air of faded dreams, felt like a fitting reflection of his mood. He felt constantly… ill at ease.

His eyes scanned the glinting displays of jewelry. Then, he spotted a ring that caught his attention. He remembered his grandmother wearing it. A gold ring with a single, pear-shaped diamond. He hadn't seen it in years, but he could have sworn he recognized the design.

He felt a sudden tightening in his throat. He pointed, his finger trembling. “Can I see that one, please?” His breath hitched. He had to have it.

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