unsettled - Story 159590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was crowded. Sarah, an abstract painter, was mingling, sipping cheap wine. Then she heard it. Her song, "Whispers of the Void," being played at the gallery, sung by the venue's house band. The song was supposed to convey emotion, but to her it felt cold.

She felt a surge of tension. Her breath came in shallow gasps. She clutched her glass so hard she was afraid it would break. The song should have felt like a celebration, but instead, it felt like an attack. She wanted to retreat, to hide, to sever the connection to this unwanted publicity.

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