unsettled - Story 159618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He clutched the podium, the polished wood strangely cold against his trembling hands. The room appeared to tilt slightly, the faces of the guests blurring at the edges. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple. He felt a suffocating pressure in his chest, making it hard to breathe.

"My parents," he began, struggling to keep his voice steady, "have shown me..." He trailed off, his mind blank. He felt a sudden, desperate longing for the simplicity of a quiet day, away from all of this attention. He longed to disappear. He fought back a wave of dizziness.

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