unsettled - Story 159087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of her garden suddenly seemed muted, overshadowed by the looming presence of the fence. Her breath caught in her throat every time she looked at it. She hadn't felt this constricted in years.

She had always considered herself a free spirit, someone who embraced the world's endless possibilities. Now, the view from her windows was narrowed, her world hemmed in. Her limbs felt heavy, weighted down.

She tried to distract herself by weeding, but the earth beneath her nails felt wrong, unfamiliar. The relentless sawing and hammering seemed to amplify every tremor in her. The desire to simply disappear washed over her.

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