unsettled - Story 159460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in his stomach. Michael had always been a homebody. He thrived on routine and familiarity. The DNA results, revealing different biological parents, felt like the anchor had been cut. He paced around his apartment, unable to sit still.

He ate a whole bag of chips, something he would never usually do, then spent hours watching pointless television. The silence of the apartment was suffocating. He went to the balcony, staring at the streetlights below, the city a vibrant, yet alien, landscape. The easygoing nature he was known for had vanished, replaced by a restless undercurrent he couldn't quell.

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