unsettled - Story 159604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the box felt unexpectedly heavy in David’s arms. He set it down carefully on the living room rug, a sudden dryness coating his mouth. It wasn't the weight of the cardboard, but the weight of potential revelations, he realized.

He'd always been told his great-aunt, a spinster schoolteacher, was a paragon of virtue. The photographs showed her in a chorus line, a dazzling smile on her face, in the days before his great-grandparents had disowned her.

David sat back on his heels, a chill settling over him. He felt disconnected from everything, the familiar furniture, the sunny room, the life he thought he knew. He couldn't shake the sensation that his whole life was a carefully constructed facade.

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