unsettled - Story 159083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fence felt like a physical weight settling on her chest. Amelia stood on her porch, clutching a mug of lukewarm coffee, watching the fence go up. Each plank was a deliberate act, a deliberate change, a solid barrier against something she couldn’t quite define.

She found herself pacing the perimeter of her yard, her hands constantly smoothing the air in front of her. A tremor went through her. The manicured lawn, the familiar swing set, everything seemed... smaller. Constricted.

She had always enjoyed the open space, the feeling of connection to the world around her. This fence was a denial of that openness, a signal of closure. She felt the urge to scream, but instead, she just swallowed hard and went back inside.

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