unsettled - Story 159075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed through the window, but the warmth did nothing to penetrate the chill that settled in Emily’s bones. The notification on her phone confirmed it: *“Mystic_Muse” just posted: Dinner at that new Italian place tonight? I’m free!* The Italian place was three blocks from her apartment.

Emily’s hands started to tremble. She clenched them into fists, knuckles white. The air felt heavy, thick. She felt like a puppet, and she was watching the strings get pulled.

She needed to change. She needed to look normal. She needed to be safe. She slammed her phone onto the desk. She could do this. She *had* to.

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