unsettled - Story 159129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her teeth chattered even though the temperature was moderate. The reunion was crucial, a chance to reconnect with her college friends after years of separation. She’d been looking forward to this for months.

She kept checking her watch, and it felt like the numbers were mocking her. She found a corner, away from the crowds, and hugged herself tightly.

The thought of them all gathered, laughing, sharing memories without her felt like a sharp, painful cut. She felt excluded, a ghost floating just beyond the circle of light.

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