unsettled - Story 159073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:00 AM, a brutal interruption of sleep. Maria sat bolt upright in bed, heart hammering. *Hey, this is awkward, but I think I saw you at the park today. It was me, “Bookworm123”*. The words swam before her eyes.

She pulled the covers tighter around herself, a futile attempt at protection. A chill permeated the room, despite the central heating. The park. Where she walked every morning. She’d talked so freely online, shared so much. Now, a cold dread coiled in her gut.

She buried her face in her pillow, muffling a frustrated groan. She wouldn't go to the park tomorrow. She couldn't.

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