unsettled - Story 159543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at 3 AM. Amelia, roused from sleep, felt a prickly sensation crawl over her skin. It was a recovery request from a social media platform, tied to a username she vaguely recognized from her daughter, Chloe. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

She’d been so careful. So open. So... what? She couldn't even finish the thought. Amelia felt an overwhelming sense of disconnect as she quickly clicked the link, her fingers trembling.

She found a whole hidden world. Pictures of Chloe smoking, drinking, and with boys. Amelia felt her vision starting to blur. She sank back into the pillows, a cold dread washing over her.

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