unsettled - Story 159410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old piano in the parlor sat silent, gathering dust. Clara ran her fingers across the keys, but no music came. She looked at her brother, Ethan, who was staring out the window, his back rigid. The house felt charged, as if holding its breath. She felt an awful urge to break something, to shatter the stillness. She wanted to scream. She pressed her hand to her chest, trying to calm the violent thumping of her heart.

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