unsettled - Story 159327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Bloated,” the critic had written of his presentation, a word that echoed in Chef Jean-Pierre's mind. His meticulously crafted plates, his years of training, all reduced to a single word. He felt disoriented.

He found himself wandering through the restaurant, touching the tablecloths, adjusting the silverware. Everything felt… wrong. He felt a need to change everything.

He kept glancing at his sous chef, Antoine, as if he expected Antoine to start questioning his abilities. His mouth felt dry. The critic’s words seemed to have seeped into the very walls.

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