unsettled - Story 159330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chef, Helena, was a woman of routine, but that day she had felt... disconnected. She was usually in control, but now she was struggling to maintain the same feeling. The critic had condemned her use of local ingredients, saying her dishes lacked originality.

She started to pace the kitchen, bumping into tables, spilling a bottle of olive oil. The mess didn't even register. She grabbed a towel and threw it across the spill.

Helena was unsure. She felt vulnerable. She was unsure if she was still capable.

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