unsettled - Story 159288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a perfectly ordinary morning. Jessica, humming as she brushed her teeth, felt a ripple of disturbance when she glanced at her phone. The name, Kyle Peterson, jumped out at her.

Her smile vanished. She spat into the sink, the action suddenly violent. She felt a growing sense of constriction in her chest, a tightness that made it hard to breathe. She found herself clutching the countertop for support.

She abandoned her morning routine, unable to face the day. She paced her apartment, unable to settle. She knew, somehow, that her peace had been shattered.

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