unsettled - Story 159177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the farmer's market seemed to swirl before her eyes. Olivia, usually so cheerful, felt a strange detachment, as if she were watching herself from outside her own body. Across the market square, she saw Daniel, the friend she thought was a famous writer.

He wasn’t. He wrote greeting cards. The truth, discovered that morning, had left her feeling... off.

She kept her gaze fixed on the ground. She felt a burning sensation in her throat, and she had to swallow several times to keep from choking. The cheerful sounds of the market grated on her nerves. She longed to retreat into the quiet of her home. She couldn't deal with any of it.

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