unsettled - Story 159213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The salt air tasted metallic, and Maya found herself gripping the railing of the pier a little too tightly. The ocean, usually a source of calm, seemed agitated today, mirroring the turbulence inside her. The disagreement with Chloe about the seashell necklace had left her feeling... off. Maya remembered them finding the perfect conch shell together, laughing as they decorated it with glitter and beads. Chloe claimed she’d found it, all by herself.

Maya stared out at the waves, watching them crash against the pilings. Her pulse quickened. The memory, once so vivid, felt now like a fragile bubble, threatening to burst.

The seagulls' cries pierced the air, grating on her nerves. She felt like she wanted to hide.

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