unsettled - Story 159608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library, usually a place of comfort for Clara, now felt thick and heavy, pressing down on her. The scent of aged paper usually felt comforting, but today it was nauseating.

The photographs revealed a secret: her grandfather, a stern man of tradition, had been a bohemian artist in his youth. The pictures showed him in a variety of poses. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

She had always felt a distance from her family, but now it felt more pronounced. She needed to know more, what was hidden. She needed to understand. She felt a cold sensation in her chest, the slow creep of some new and unwelcome thing.

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