unsettled - Story 159457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of her life suddenly seemed muted. Emily had always felt secure, loved. Then, the DNA results. Different ancestry, different lineage. Her hands shook as she reread the email, the words blurring before her eyes. The foundations of her world had shifted.

She spent hours in the attic, surrounded by old family photos. She scrutinized them, trying to find some hidden meaning, some clue to her past. She felt a persistent thrum of unease that never truly left her. She paced, restless, unable to settle. She kept finding herself walking toward the door, only to retreat back inside.

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