unsettled - Story 159529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat. The article, its accusations against the celebrated author, Elias Thorne, lay open on the kitchen counter. The words blurred before her eyes. For years, Clara had found solace in Thorne’s work, his words resonating with her own experiences. Now, a cold dread settled in her stomach.

She walked into the living room and threw herself down on the sofa. She felt a tightness in her chest, making it hard to breathe. The familiar comfort of her home suddenly felt oppressive, the walls closing in. She stared at the ceiling and closed her eyes.

She didn’t feel safe.

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