unsettled - Story 159542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael ran a hand through his thinning hair, a gesture he often made when flustered. The profile picture, a blurry shot of his son, Alex, with dyed hair and multiple piercings, stared back at him. He hadn't known. He thought he knew his son.

He paced the living room, the polished floorboards squeaking with each step. His jaw clenched as he read the messages. Jokes he didn't understand, slang he'd never heard. A wave of heat washed over him.

He felt a sudden shortness of breath. He needed air. He needed to understand. He opened the window, the cool night breeze offering no relief to the building tension within him.

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