unsettled - Story 159419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the quiet. She jumped, her heart leaping into her throat. She stared at the phone, frozen, her hand hovering over it. She'd found the wallet hours before, near a bus stop. She was certain someone was looking for it.

The phone rang again, and then again. Each ring was a hammer blow against her already frayed nerves. She didn't want to answer, but she couldn't bring herself to ignore it. The world around her felt distorted, the familiar objects of her life appearing somehow menacing.

Finally, she picked up the phone, her voice barely a whisper. The silence on the other end felt worse than any accusation.

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