unsettled - Story 159478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box appeared overnight, sitting by the front door when she went to get the morning paper. The label was almost illegible, but it was addressed to "Previous Occupant." She paused, her grip tightening on the newspaper. She didn't want this.

She dragged the package inside, her heart thudding against her ribs. She couldn’t shake the sensation of a cold hand resting on her back. She felt exposed, vulnerable. Everything around her seemed to be closing in.

She went back to the kitchen, but she couldn’t focus on breakfast. The package sat there, a dark presence in the hallway, and it was the only thing she could think about.

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