unsettled - Story 159453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt distorted after the phone call. Maria's adoptive mother had to deliver the news after the DNA test revealed a completely different heritage. The comfortable familiarity of her home suddenly felt like a stage set, the furniture and artwork merely props in a play she wasn't sure she wanted to continue.

She locked herself in her bedroom, staring at the family photos that now seemed like elaborate fakes. The faces of her parents and siblings, once symbols of love and belonging, now held an alien quality. She felt a growing pressure inside her chest, a tightening that made it hard to breathe. The air in the room felt thick and suffocating.

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