unsettled - Story 159508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the dog tags on the fence made her jump, her heart hammering against her ribs. She pressed her back against the cool surface of the wall, willing herself to become invisible. Buster, the golden retriever, was sniffing at her roses again.

Her breath came in shallow, rapid pants. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words were caught in her throat. She closed her eyes, trying to visualize a world without the intrusions, the boundary crossings. The air felt heavy, thick with a sense of… wrongness.

She opened her eyes and felt a tear run down her cheek.

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