unsettled - Story 159165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware, the murmur of conversation, everything felt like a carefully orchestrated assault on Clara's senses. She had been enjoying herself, the day was lovely, the ceremony beautiful. Then she saw him.

Her smile faltered, replaced by a rigid, almost painful expression. She found herself carefully studying the pattern on her plate, unable to meet anyone's gaze. The air around her seemed to vibrate with a tension that was entirely personal.

She felt the prickling sensation of tears behind her eyes. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to vanish. Instead, she picked at the food on her plate, the delicious flavours suddenly lost to her. She wanted to leave, now, immediately.

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