unsettled - Story 159235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt too big, the silence too loud. Emily walked from room to room, touching things, as if grounding herself. The sunlight streaming through the windows seemed harsh, intrusive. She picked up a framed photograph of her family, staring at their smiling faces. A strange detachment had settled over her, as if she were observing herself from a great distance. She put the photo down and the action felt empty. Her fingers kept twitching, wanting to reach for her phone.

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