unsettled - Story 159399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up a copy of "Frankenstein" from the library, hoping to find a brief escape from the ceaseless thrumming of his thoughts. His hands were clammy, his pulse a frantic drumbeat in his ears. The air in the library felt heavy, suffocating.

A dried, pressed flower, a snowdrop, fell from the book. Attached to it was a small piece of paper. Scrawled across it in an unsteady hand were the words: "He’s watching."

His breath caught. He looked around wildly, his gaze darting from face to face. The hushed whispers of the library seemed to amplify the words, turning them into a deafening pronouncement. He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing through the otherwise silent space.

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