unsettled - Story 159593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt… off. Like she was walking through a dream. Maya stared out the window, the bustling city below a blur of motion. Her body felt heavy, her limbs leaden. She’d been so sure. She picked up her phone, then put it down, again. The familiar ping of notifications on her phone seemed abrasive, too loud. Each sound grated on her nerves, making her flinch. She needed quiet. A long, deep breath. The thought offered no relief.

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