unsettled - Story 159269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I sat on the bus ride home, staring blankly out the window. The city lights blurred into streaks of color, mirroring the chaos inside. The other players on the bus were chattering, excited about the upcoming season. I remained silent, a wall of isolation building around me. The music in my earbuds sounded distorted, the beats echoing in my chest. I felt adrift, separated from the currents of life.

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