unsettled - Story 159170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day suddenly settled on her shoulders. She had been laughing, chatting, enjoying the wedding. Then she saw him, and a shadow fell over everything.

She felt a strange disconnect, as if she were observing herself from a distance. The world seemed to fade around her, the vibrant colors becoming muted, the cheerful sounds becoming a dull roar. Her fingers felt cold, and she crossed her arms as if warding off a physical chill.

She needed an escape, but she didn’t know how to find one. The room spun slightly, and she felt the overwhelming urge to dissolve into the background, to become invisible.

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