unsettled - Story 159620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buffet table, laden with food, seemed to stretch endlessly before him. The smell of the catered meal did little to stimulate his appetite. He felt a peculiar detachment from his body, as though he were watching himself from a distance. The room buzzed with the sound of cheerful conversation, but he couldn't quite connect.

"Mom, Dad," he began, his voice thin and shaky. "I want to say…" He paused, struggling to find the words. He felt an intense need to escape, to be alone, to be anywhere but here. He looked at his parents, their faces beaming with contentment, and a wave of something he couldn't name washed over him.

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