unsettled - Story 159068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt heavy. Mia sat among the stacks, surrounded by books she couldn’t focus on. She stared blankly at a page, the words swimming before her eyes. She kept twisting the pen in her hand, the clicking sound a nervous tic.

She felt a persistent, throbbing headache behind her eyes. The quiet of the library, usually a comfort, felt oppressive. She took a deep breath, trying to regain control.

She closed the book and pressed her palms against her forehead, trying to clear her head. The weight of the situation felt immense. The familiar scent of old paper and ink suddenly felt suffocating.

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