unsettled - Story 159076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the map on his screen, tracing the route with his finger. The message, from "Pixel_Perfect," had arrived hours ago: *Going to that new arcade downtown tonight! Wanna join?*. The arcade was three blocks away from his favorite bookstore.

A knot formed in his stomach. He wasn't sure if he should go. The prospect of seeing her. The possibility that she would recognize him. The anxiety was making his head hurt. He felt the back of his neck begin to prickle.

He stood up, pacing the small space. He needed to get out of the house. He needed a distraction.

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