unsettled - Story 159568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to soothe the tension in Jake's chest. He stared at his laptop screen. His party, a sophisticated cocktail gathering, felt suddenly... pretentious. He knew, across town, his friend, Sam, was having a casual barbecue.

He clicked on the online RSVP list again, his heart sinking with each guest who had yet to respond. He took a sip of water, but it did nothing to quench his thirst.

He considered sending a last-minute text to his brother, inviting him to a casual hangout instead. But he couldn't bring himself to do it. His jaw clenched. He closed the laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the empty apartment.

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