unsettled - Story 159284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can I stay up later tonight?" Michael asked, a nervous tremor in his voice. He shifted from foot to foot, avoiding eye contact. He had just received the friend request. The name: Ethan Blake. Michael’s mom, unaware of the reason behind her son's request, frowned at the late hour.

"Why, honey?" she asked, her voice filled with concern. Michael mumbled something about finishing his homework, but it wasn't true. He couldn't concentrate on anything, his mind replaying every painful interaction he'd endured in elementary school.

He had locked himself in his room, listening to the muffled sounds of his parents, trying to find some semblance of calm. The thought of Ethan, the way he used to laugh, twisted his stomach. He wasn’t sure how to feel.

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