unsettled - Story 159507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was suddenly deafening. Mark found himself staring into the open fridge, unable to remember why he'd opened it in the first place. Buster's escapades had been weighing on him more than he realized.

He slammed the door shut, the noise startling him. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He paced back and forth, the confines of his small kitchen feeling suffocating. He needed to be occupied, but every idea felt futile.

He slumped onto a chair, the linoleum cold against his skin, and just stared.

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