unsettled - Story 159215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library was deafening. Clara closed the worn leather-bound book with a snap, the sound echoing in the vast space. The conversation with Ben earlier that day about the old summer camp was still circling in her mind. She remembered the thrilling ghost stories around the campfire. Ben insisted the tales had been boring and silly.

Clara felt a knot tightening in her throat. She had built so much of her personality around the adventures of summer camp. Now, she felt a strong disorientation, as if her entire foundation was crumbling.

She pulled on her sweater, trying to find some form of comfort, but it was useless.

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