unsettled - Story 159420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the mirror, barely recognizing the stranger staring back. He looked haggard, his eyes bloodshot, his face pale. He'd spent the entire night awake, staring at the wallet, the stolen cash mocking him. He was a wreck.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture failing to calm the chaotic thoughts swirling in his mind. He was besieged by a feeling of disquiet, a disquiet he didn't know how to shake. The walls of his apartment seemed to be closing in.

He moved about the apartment restlessly, unable to find comfort anywhere. He knew he couldn't live with this sense of oppression much longer.

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