unsettled - Story 159407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long, distorted shadows across the living room. Sarah found herself staring at them, mesmerized, as if they held some hidden meaning. Her brother, Mark, was outside, trying to fix the broken fence, whistling tunelessly. But she couldn't join him. She couldn't shake the feeling of disquiet. A cold sweat beaded on her forehead. The silence, punctuated only by the distant sounds of birdsong, grated on her nerves. She wanted to scream.

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