unsettled - Story 159338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." That was all Clara could manage to whisper after reading the email. "The Cozy Corner" was closing. Her favorite place to hide away after work. Her spot by the fireplace. All gone.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a lightness that was anything but good. She stood up abruptly, knocking her chair backward. It clattered against the floor. She ignored it. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt.

She thought of the comfort of the place, the warmth, the quiet. She thought of all the times she felt safe there. Now, she felt like she was standing on unstable ground. The feeling of the rug being pulled out from under her was intense.

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