unsettled - Story 159527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the book covers suddenly seemed garish, accusing. Sarah ran her fingers over the spine of the latest novel by Julian Vance, the author whose work had saved her during dark times. The words on the page had become a balm, a comfort, a truth. Now, they were tainted. A wave of nausea swept over her.

She closed the book, the sound like a gunshot in the silent room. She felt a profound sense of bewilderment. The comfortable familiarity of her reading space felt alien, distorted. Her hands felt clammy. She pulled her sweater tighter around herself.

She sat and waited for something to change.

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