unsettled - Story 159429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the invitation clutched in his hand, rereading the details. John didn't know what to do with it. His knuckles were white. He was sweating, and the temperature in his apartment was comfortable. He hated the idea of going, but the thought of not going felt worse.

He ran a hand over his face. He felt disconnected, detached from everything. He went to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee, though he wasn’t sure he wanted it. He needed something to do, something to fill the empty space.

He stared at the wall, the blank space where he had planned to hang a picture. He realized he hadn't hung anything in years. The thought was a jarring sensation, and the feeling grew. He needed to be busy. He turned and started washing the dishes.

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