unsettled - Story 159078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house pressed in on him. He felt as though his very bones were resonating with some inner tension. "Nova_Echo" had messaged him: *Fancy a hike at the park tomorrow? It's supposed to be beautiful.* The local park was just down the street.

A strange buzzing, almost static, filled his ears. The air seemed to have thickened. He felt a need to break something. He ran his hands through his hair. He needed to get out. He needed to not feel this.

He grabbed his car keys and left. He would drive. He would go anywhere.

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