unsettled - Story 159240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just words," she repeated to herself, a mantra that failed to comfort. She stared out the window, at the rain lashing against the glass. The grayness mirrored the mood inside her. She felt hollow, empty. She wanted to sleep, to escape, but the images of the blog, the comments, the exposed vulnerabilities, kept flashing behind her eyelids. She curled up on the couch, pulling a blanket around her like a shield, but the chill inside remained.

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