unsettled - Story 159502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the frantic tapping of Amelia's fingers against the kitchen table. The incessant drumming echoed the anxiety that coiled in her stomach. Buster, the golden retriever, was at it again. She glanced at the clock: 3:17 AM.

She knew she should confront the neighbors, but the thought made her throat constrict. She’d tried leaving polite notes, but the escapes persisted. Amelia kept replaying the conversations in her mind, imagining angry accusations.

She rose, her legs heavy. The darkness pressed against her, making the familiar layout of her house seem strange and menacing. She took a deep, shaky breath, and grabbed her flashlight.

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