unsettled - Story 159442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah walked into the dorm room and froze. Liam was sitting on his bed, a book in his hand. “Hey,” he said, a little too brightly. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. The air in the small space felt thick, charged. A faint, lingering scent of lavender, his usual air freshener, did nothing to soothe the sudden heat rising in her chest. She grabbed her backpack, the familiar weight a small comfort, and mumbled a curt, "Fine." The casual tone sounded forced, even to her own ears.

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