unsettled - Story 159257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit Emily like a physical blow. She stood rooted to the spot, the coffee cup trembling in her hand, the liquid sloshing over the rim. The website, plastered with the article under "Dr. Charles Harding," swam before her eyes. She wanted to yell, to scream, to lash out. Instead, she felt strangely hollow, her limbs heavy, her mouth suddenly dry. She set the cup down, the gentle thud against the countertop reverberating through her. She felt a growing, simmering resentment.

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