unsettled - Story 159166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is awkward,” he muttered, more to himself than to the person he was talking to. He had been having a perfectly pleasant conversation, until she walked in, radiating confidence in a way that made him feel as if he’d been hit by a truck.

He felt a tightness in his throat, making it difficult to swallow. He forced a smile, though it felt unnatural, pasted onto his face. He watched her as she greeted people, chatting easily. He felt a wave of dizziness, and grabbed a passing waiter to take a glass of water.

He needed to get away, to someplace quiet. He excused himself from the group, mumbling something about needing to find the bathroom. The weight of her presence seemed to follow him, pressing down on him as he walked.

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