unsettled - Story 159304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, a little chirp that sliced through the quiet. David stared at the subject line: “Salary Review.” He felt a tremor run through him. His performance review was scheduled for next week. He had always been told he was a model employee.

He glanced over at Emily, who sat across from him. Her smile seemed a little too bright, her movements a little too carefree. He recalled her boastful chatter the other day.

He took a deep breath, the air feeling thin in his chest. A strange hollowness had invaded his thoughts.

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