unsettled - Story 159120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chalk and rosin clung to the air, normally a comforting aroma. But today, the smell felt unsettling to him. Chris had always been a sprinter, his focus honed on the 100-meter dash. Now, he was being asked to try the long jump.

He stood on the runway, his body feeling stiff. He stretched his legs, the warm-up routine feeling inadequate. The sand pit loomed, a vast emptiness. He looked at the take-off board, his heart hammering against his ribs.

He took a deep breath, the air tasting thin. The run felt sluggish, the jump felt clumsy. He felt like a stranger in a familiar place.

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