unsettled - Story 159406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph on the mantelpiece, a picture of his grandmother smiling, and felt a pressure in his chest. A sudden wave of nausea washed over him. He felt as if he didn't belong here, a trespasser in a place that held so many secrets. He rubbed his temples, trying to dispel the feeling. His sister, Olivia, was talking about renovations, about painting and new furniture. But all he could see were the ghosts of the past, whispering in the shadows. He wanted to run away.

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