unsettled - Story 159236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words a blurry jumble. Each line, each sentence, was a fresh jab. A cold sweat prickled his skin. He felt a strong desire to run, to escape. He abruptly stood and began to pace. He stopped, suddenly, and kicked over the trash can beside him. He needed the world to stop spinning. He needed to control something, anything. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging on the strands as if they were the source of his current affliction.

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