unsettled - Story 159077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the market, usually a source of joy, now felt garish, overwhelming. Chloe scanned the stalls, her eyes darting nervously. The message from “GalaxyGirl91” – *Hey! I’m at the farmer’s market. Come say hi!* – had arrived an hour earlier. Chloe gripped her shopping bag so tightly her knuckles ached.

Her breathing was shallow. She felt suffocated, claustrophobic. She recognized the vibrant scarf she had described to "GalaxyGirl91." He knew what she looked like. She felt a growing sense of panic.

She wanted to run. She turned sharply and made a beeline for the exit.

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