unsettled - Story 159555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic sound echoing through the sparsely furnished living room. The thought of a bird, flitting about their space, sent a jolt of agitation through him.

He tugged at his collar, feeling the fabric restrict his breathing. The idea of the mess, the noise, the potential for feathers everywhere... it felt overwhelming. He preferred the quiet, the predictability.

The scent of his roommate's cooking, usually a source of comfort, now felt cloying. He needed to get away, to clear his head, but where could he go? He felt trapped, pinned down by the unexpected announcement.

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