unsettled - Story 159126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt alien, the constant drone of announcements a relentless soundtrack to his rising anxiety. David clenched and unclenched his fists, trying to release the tension that tightened his muscles. It was his daughter's birthday, and he'd promised to be there for the cake.

He slumped in his chair, feeling the upholstery’s rough texture against his skin. He closed his eyes, picturing her face, her expectant smile, the balloons, the joy.

He knew he’d disappoint her, and the thought was a lead weight in his gut. The clock on the wall seemed to taunt him, each second a slow, deliberate march away from her.

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