unsettled - Story 159443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t focus on the lecture. John kept fidgeting, tapping his pen against his notebook, the rhythmic clicking a frantic counterpoint to the professor's droning voice. He kept seeing the cover of his journal, the worn leather, the distinctive green ink of the title. The lecture notes looked like gibberish; the diagrams a jumble. The urge to bolt, to escape the confines of the classroom, became almost overwhelming. He felt a need to check, to make sure, to… know.

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