unsettled - Story 159528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library suddenly felt thin, as though it was being sucked out of the room. The damning revelations about Charles Blackwood's plagiarized work, felt like a physical blow. Thomas, who had dedicated his life to studying Blackwood's oeuvre, felt hollowed out.

He stumbled back from the table, knocking over a stack of books. Their pages splayed open, their covers now mocking. He felt a surge of heat rush through him. The calm, ordered world he’d built around Blackwood's writing now felt utterly precarious. He ran his hands through his hair.

He felt the overwhelming urge to escape. He gathered his things.

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