unsettled - Story 159265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had trained for years, dedicating every waking moment to the sport. Now, standing outside the tryout area, a strange detachment washed over him. He felt as though he was watching himself from a distance. He ran a hand over his shaved head, the cold sensation a sharp contrast to the internal heat of frustration. The cheers from inside the stadium felt distant, muffled, like a sound from another world. He walked away, not knowing where he was going, or what he would do next.

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