unsettled - Story 159066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David spent an hour on the basketball court, shooting hoops. The familiar rhythm of the ball bouncing, the swish of the net, usually calmed him. Today, it was just the opposite. Each missed shot felt like a physical blow.

He kept driving to the basket, ignoring the ache in his muscles. His movements were jerky, erratic. He shouted a frustrated grunt after each missed free throw. The setting sun cast long shadows across the court.

He finally walked off the court, feeling more drained than invigorated. He didn't bother to wipe the sweat from his brow. The letter was a dark cloud, hanging over him.

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