unsettled - Story 159340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Sweet Surrender," gone. This was the news that greeted Fiona as she opened her laptop. Her shoulders slumped. Her breathing became shallow. It was the only place she could find joy.

She felt a cold wave wash over her, a physical reaction she couldn't control. She felt a sudden urge to flee, to escape this information. She got up and paced the small confines of her apartment, her thoughts racing.

She remembered the taste of the pastries, the music playing in the background, the soft lighting. All gone. This place had been her rock. What now?

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