unsettled - Story 159303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunchroom felt suffocating, filled with the aroma of reheated leftovers. Maria picked at her salad, her appetite gone. She knew, somehow, what was going on. It didn't need to be said. The casual chat amongst the others was all it took. The new intern, barely out of high school, was earning more than her.

She picked at the lettuce, chewing each bite slowly, deliberately. The salad lost all appeal.

Maria pushed her plate away, the metal tray clattering against the table. She wanted to leave, to disappear.

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