unsettled - Story 159487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back to the city was filled with an oppressive silence. She kept checking the rearview mirror, as if expecting something to chase her. The news had hit her hard, a feeling she couldn't quite name, making her skin prickle.

She turned on the radio, hoping to drown out the thoughts clamoring in her head. The music did little to soothe the unsettling tide that swept over her. She gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles ached.

She pulled over to the side of the road, overcome with a sudden wave of… something akin to panic. The familiar landscape, the open road – everything seemed alien and hostile. She took a deep breath, trying to regain control.

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