unsettled - Story 159308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was longer than usual, the familiar route suddenly unfamiliar. As I drove, I kept replaying the conversation in my head, the casual mention of her starting salary. Claire, with her fancy degree, was making more than me.

I gripped the steering wheel a little tighter, the leather rough under my fingers. My jaw felt clenched, my teeth grinding.

I blinked, the world outside becoming a blur. I pulled over to the side of the road, the engine idling.

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