unsettled - Story 159108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office was thick with a palpable tension. The new girl, Chloe, sat across from him, her posture perfect, her face a mask of polite interest. David felt his chest tighten with each question.

He reached for a glass of water, his hand shaking. He could feel himself sweating, his shirt clinging to his back. The ceiling fan whirred overhead, but it did nothing to alleviate the heat he felt.

"And then," he stammered, his voice barely audible, "you just... uh... enter the data." He felt like he had failed, yet also like he was being failed.

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