unsettled - Story 159365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, as if he were underwater. Michael opened the mailbox, and the card, tucked inside, jolted him. It was a simple, store-bought card with a generic floral design. His stomach lurched. He hadn’t given his address to anyone recently.

He slammed the mailbox shut and quickly walked back to his apartment, his steps unusually quick. He went to the kitchen and made a cup of tea, but the familiar ritual didn't soothe him. His hand shook as he took a sip.

He took the card, his knuckles white. Inside it read, "Hope it's a good one." He wondered, again, if he should call the police. He couldn't. He was paralyzed with dread.

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