unsettled - Story 159509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had woken up with a headache. A dull, persistent throb that seemed to mirror the frustration building inside him. The sight of Buster, the golden menace, lounging on his lawn, was the final straw. It felt personal.

He slammed the back door, and his dog, a fluffy Bichon Frise named Coco, yipped in surprise. He ignored her and stomped outside, feeling a pressure building behind his eyes. He crossed the yard, his boots crunching on the gravel, a feeling of coiled tension in every muscle.

"Hey!" The word was a growl.

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