unsettled - Story 159506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honestly, it's getting ridiculous," Clara muttered to herself, staring at the muddy paw prints on her pristine patio. She crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine despite the warm sunlight. Buster’s antics were making her edgy.

She walked towards her garage, grabbed her gardening gloves, and went to assess the damage. She felt a knot in her stomach. The dog’s repeated intrusions triggered a sharp, almost visceral reaction, a feeling of being… violated. She knew she needed to say something, but the thought of the conversation sent a wave of nausea through her.

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