unsettled - Story 159328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone wouldn’t stop ringing. Reservations were being canceled. Chef Stella, usually the embodiment of cool confidence, found herself staring at the screen, her stomach churning. The review had eviscerated her pastry creations, and the blow was proving to be a knockout punch.

She ran her hand over her face, feeling the fatigue settling deep into her bones. She couldn't focus on the baking schedule, but she needed to make sure they had enough pastries for the next day. She kept checking the time, as if she was late for something.

She felt a wave of nausea. She was starting to question her own intuition. Had she truly been wrong this whole time?

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