unsettled - Story 159060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just looking," Robert mumbled to the bored-looking man behind the counter. He felt a gnawing anxiety, a low-level fear he couldn't name. He hadn’t been able to concentrate since the news about his father's health. He felt as though he was on a tightrope, and the wind was picking up. He needed a distraction, something to take his mind off things.

He wandered through the aisles of the pawn shop, his gaze scanning the cluttered displays. Then, he stopped dead. He saw a ring, a gold ring with a small, seed pearl. His grandmother's ring. He remembered the stories she told him about it.

He felt a sudden and intense need to possess it. He pointed, his finger shaking. "How much is that?" The air in the shop felt suddenly thin.

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