unsettled - Story 159079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, now felt cloying. For the first time, Liam didn’t want to go to his usual coffee shop. He reread the message. *“CodeMonkey23” - Meet up at the cafe down the street?*

He felt a sudden, inexplicable nausea. He ran his hand over his forehead, trying to cool himself. He felt a creeping dread. He felt cornered. He needed to breathe.

He grabbed his jacket, intending to leave the apartment. Then, he changed his mind and slumped back onto the sofa. He stared at the ceiling.

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