unsettled - Story 159525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." The word escaped Maya’s lips as a choked whisper. She gripped the phone tighter, as if she could squeeze the lies out of it. The voice on the other end, a former college classmate, droned on about the evidence, about the similarities between Maya's college thesis and the new novel by Cassandra Blake. Maya's chest felt constricted.

She slammed the phone down, her hand trembling. The room spun. The image of Cassandra, always so radiant in interviews, so effortlessly eloquent, suddenly seemed grotesque, a carefully constructed facade. A knot of unease formed in her stomach.

She ran her hand through her hair, and started sobbing.

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