unsettled - Story 159545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Who *is* this girl?" Brenda asked, her voice tight with suppressed emotion. The account, a meticulously crafted facade, displayed photos of her daughter, Emily, with a boy. A boy Brenda had never seen, a boy who seemed to hold a space in her daughter’s life Brenda didn't know about.

She gripped the phone so tightly her knuckles turned white. The curated online world felt like a mocking mirror, reflecting back a version of Emily she didn't recognize. A profound disquiet resonated through her.

Her breath hitched. She had the urgent need to sit down. Everything had tilted. She felt a growing sense of isolation.

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