unsettled - Story 159175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the diner cast long, distorted shadows across the table. Emily tapped her fingers on the vinyl, the rhythmic sound amplifying the turmoil in her thoughts. Across from her sat Chris, the supposed CEO of a successful tech startup. A tech startup that was, in reality, his parents' basement hobby.

Her breath hitched. She'd always found his charisma captivating, his stories filled with excitement. Now, she felt a hollow ache in her gut.

She avoided looking him in the eye. The bright lights of the diner seemed too intense, the clatter of the plates and silverware deafening. She just wanted to run away. She excused herself to go to the bathroom.

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