unsettled - Story 159469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam felt a familiar flutter in his chest as he approached the pawn shop. The violin, his father's prized possession, was sitting in the window display. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his face tight. His aunt needed money, and selling the violin had been the fastest option.

He felt a pull in his gut, a sickening dread. He should be happy for his aunt. He should be grateful she had something so valuable. But his father's ghost seemed to fill the shop with a mournful sound. He quickly turned away, the shop's door sounding a sharp clang behind him.

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