unsettled - Story 159541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering screen cast an eerie glow on Sarah's face as she scrolled through the fake account. Her daughter, Maya, had been so secretive lately. The late nights, the averted glances, the phone glued to her hand. Sarah's stomach felt like it was doing somersaults.

She kept tapping her foot, a nervous rhythm that echoed in the otherwise silent house. The photos – Maya, yes, but different. Dressed in clothes Sarah didn’t recognize, posing with people she'd never met. A knot tightened in her chest.

A cold shiver ran down her spine. Each like, each comment, felt like a tiny pinprick against her carefully constructed world. She closed the laptop, the screen going black, and the darkness somehow felt more oppressive.

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