unsettled - Story 159098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her mother's perfume, a fragrance she hadn't smelled in years, filled the air. Emma recoiled, the familiar aroma stirring up a mix of nostalgia and discomfort. The house, once a haven, now felt like a stage, and she the reluctant performer.

Her father, who was usually a fountain of stories, was unusually quiet, his eyes constantly on her, searching. Each question about her past apartment, her former job, felt like a judgment.

She sought out the solace of the garden, the vibrant colours of the flowers a stark contrast to the monochrome of her feelings. Kneeling in the dirt, she couldn't seem to steady her shaking hands.

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