unsettled - Story 159594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, the rejection letter clutched in his sweaty hand. The afternoon sun, usually a comfort, felt harsh against his skin. A flock of pigeons scattered nearby, the sudden movement startling him. He jumped, his heart leaping into his throat. His breath caught in his chest. He watched them fly away, then looked at the words on the paper again, as if the meaning might change with repeated readings. He ran his hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end.

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