unsettled - Story 159092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Dust motes danced in the afternoon sunbeams slicing through the blinds. Leo watched them, mesmerized, as though they held the answers he was desperately seeking. His old bedroom, a shrine to his teenage angst, felt suffocating.

He ran a hand over the faded poster of his favorite band, a band he’d outgrown years ago. The room echoed with the ghosts of his past, a past he hadn't fully left behind, and a future he couldn't grasp.

“Leo, are you going to help your mother with the groceries?” His father’s voice, filtered through the closed door, snapped him from his stupor. He swallowed, the words catching in his throat, and slowly, deliberately, began to rise. He felt a profound reluctance, a heavy feeling dragging at him, to face the world again.

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