unsettled - Story 159599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of lavender from the garden didn't soothe her. She was outside, and the sky looked wrong today, too vast, too overwhelming. Sarah paced the perimeter of her yard, her feet shuffling in the dry grass. She picked at a loose thread on her sleeve. She needed to feel grounded, to be real. She knelt and touched the earth, as if the soil might somehow absorb the churning inside her. It offered no comfort.

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