unsettled - Story 159110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't intended to be abrupt. But the moment he sat across from his replacement, a young woman named Emily, the words just spilled out. The pressure was intense. He had been looking forward to this, yet now...

He tried to slow down his speech, to be patient, but the words still tumbled out in a rush. He watched Emily's face, searching for any sign of recognition, any hint of understanding.

His stomach churned, a physical manifestation of his inner turmoil. He tried to relax, but his muscles remained rigid, frozen in place. He felt like he was running a race he didn't want to win.

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