unsettled - Story 159313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was buzzing with chatter and the clinking of glasses. He took a sip of water, his hand trembling slightly. Across the table, she was animated, talking with the waitress in her native language. This was the first time she'd spoken her language to him in public.

He had always found her accent charming, a blend of her culture with his. Now, watching her, he felt oddly disconnected. The conversation seemed to flow effortlessly, a secret language he wasn't privy to. He found himself picking at the bread basket, the crust suddenly unappetizing.

She turned to him, her eyes sparkling. “Did you understand what she said? She thought we were lovely together.” But her words felt distant, filtered through a membrane he couldn't penetrate.

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