unsettled - Story 159504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything alright, honey?" Sarah asked, her brow furrowed. I jumped, startled by her voice. The metallic tang of fear coated my tongue. I had been staring at the cracks in the ceiling for what felt like hours. Buster’s latest incursion had left me… jumpy.

I forced a smile. “Just tired, I guess.”

The lie tasted like sand. I imagined the dog, its boundless energy, its casual disregard for boundaries. The thought made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I pushed my chair back, the screech echoing through the suddenly too-quiet room, and got up to start dinner.

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