unsettled - Story 159179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A nervous laugh escaped Sofia’s lips as she watched the sunset. She'd agreed to this picnic with Ava, who’d shared endless stories of her work as an architect. The reality was much more mundane: Ava worked in a small office doing secretarial work.

Sofia felt the blood drain from her face. The beauty of the sunset, usually a source of joy, now felt cruel. It was all a lie.

She started fidgeting with the picnic basket, unable to meet Ava’s gaze. The air grew heavy and thick. She wanted to scream. She felt like she couldn’t breathe.

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