unsettled - Story 159317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the market stalls buzzed with life, but he was fixated on the way his partner was interacting with the vendor. The ease with which she bartered, the fluid movements of her hands, the laughter that bubbled from her lips. It was all in her native tongue, a language now familiar to him.

He was struck by a feeling of displacement. He'd been looking forward to a relaxed afternoon, but he felt like an outsider, an observer in a play he didn't understand. The energy of the market felt oppressive. He touched his chest, and felt his heart tapping rapidly.

He cleared his throat. "Are you enjoying yourself?" he asked, his voice sounding flat to his own ears.

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