unsettled - Story 159118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the helmet felt heavier than usual. Brian, the star linebacker, felt a jolt of anxiety. He, the man who was meant to be the protector, was now being asked to carry the ball. He stood on the sideline, watching his teammates.

He felt a tightness in his throat as the coach clapped him on the shoulder. He walked onto the field, feeling the gaze of the crowd on him. He felt like an actor on a stage without a script.

He clenched his fists, trying to find some semblance of the confidence he was used to. The ball felt like a burden.

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