unsettled - Story 159597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator filled the small kitchen as Arthur stared at the half-eaten sandwich on the counter. He had no appetite. He felt adrift. He leaned against the counter, then slid to the floor, his back against the cool ceramic tiles. He closed his eyes, trying to find some semblance of calm. But the image of the rejection letter flashed behind his eyelids, each word a hammer blow. He needed to be alone. He needed to not feel.

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