unsettled - Story 159238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noises, the car horns, the distant sirens, all seemed amplified, grating on her nerves. She pulled her coat tighter, as if to physically shield herself from the world. Every face in the crowded street felt like a potential critic, a reader of her most private thoughts. The food she bought at the deli sat untouched in her hand, the smell of the sandwich doing nothing to appease her. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but she kept the turmoil locked inside.

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