unsettled - Story 159319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up his phone, scrolling through their photos. They looked happy, he thought. They looked in love. Yet, something felt skewed. Something felt wrong.

He had heard her speaking on the phone. Fragments of sentences, quick, hushed. He had never pushed, but now he was second-guessing everything. Each memory now felt tainted with a layer of uncertainty.

He texted her: “Are you having a good day?” He waited for a reply, the seconds feeling like an eternity. He went to the kitchen and made himself a cup of tea, but he couldn't bring himself to drink it.

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