unsettled - Story 159539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in front of the mirror, studying his reflection. Ethan's face, usually so familiar, looked strange. The eyes seemed unfocused, the mouth a tight line. The scholarship… gone. It was a mistake. A blunder.

He splashed cold water on his face, but it didn't help. He had planned to make his mark on the world. Now, his future felt less certain. He felt the need to break things, to shout. He wanted to go back in time, undo this, erase it. He leaned in close to the mirror, and the person in the mirror stared back, a stranger.

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