unsettled - Story 159217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock Elara’s discomfort. She wandered among the paintings, each image a swirling kaleidoscope of hues. The argument with her best friend, Fiona, about the art project was weighing heavily on her. Elara remembered collaborating together, blending colors and creating beautiful images. Fiona, however, insisted that Elara had dominated the project, making all the decisions and ignoring her input.

Elara felt a strange pressure building behind her eyes. Her fingers felt numb. She felt compelled to leave, but she could not.

She moved to the farthest corner of the room.

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