unsettled - Story 159226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the handwriting on the file folders, his heart doing a strange flutter. "David - Primary School," "David - Middle School," "David - High School." His mother, in her infinite wisdom, had saved every jot and tittle.

He picked up a book report on *Moby Dick*, which he remembered hating to read. He felt a phantom weight on his chest. It felt like he was being watched, judged.

He shut the folder with a snap. The sound echoed in the quiet room. He had the sudden urge to smash something. He’d never felt this jittery before. He needed a drink, a very strong one. He decided to leave the task to tomorrow.

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