unsettled - Story 159498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the lab was thick with the scent of soldering fumes and disappointment. Maya ran a calloused hand across the surface of her workbench, her fingers tracing the familiar contours of her disassembled device. She had poured her heart and soul into this project, only to discover it was already patented. Her gaze dropped to the floor, her shoulders slumping. She’d always loved the way the metal felt in her hands, its coldness a familiar comfort, but now even that felt… wrong. She felt something rising in her throat, a pressure she couldn’t quite name.

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