unsettled - Story 159299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the phone to call his friend. He paused, his finger hovering over the dial button. The invitation lay on the coffee table, a cruel reminder. He felt a pressure behind his eyes, a sensation of impending overwhelm. He suddenly felt a strong desire to be alone, to hide away from the world. He abruptly slammed his phone down, unable to bring himself to speak. He stood motionless for several minutes before starting pacing.

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