unsettled - Story 159233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt…wrong. Like looking through a warped funhouse mirror. Sarah found herself constantly checking her phone, compulsively refreshing the blog, a masochistic act she couldn't seem to stop. The comments, the snippets, the excerpts from her diary – they were all so…public. She gripped her phone tighter, the metal digging into her palm. Her breath came in shallow, rapid pants. She found herself retreating, physically and emotionally. The curtains were drawn now, casting long shadows. It was as if she'd been physically exposed.

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