unsettled - Story 159621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya’s fingers hovered over the “block” button. Mrs. Peterson, her English teacher, was now among her followers on Instagram. Maya felt a cold rush in her chest. This was...weird. She hadn’t even realized she had her account set to public. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she hadn't noticed she did. All those late-night selfies, the silly stories with her friends, all accessible to Mrs. Peterson. What would the woman think?

The next day in class, Maya kept glancing at Mrs. Peterson, trying to gauge her reaction, or any hidden clue about the account. The teacher was her usual composed self, but Maya struggled to focus on the lesson. Her mind buzzed. Had she seen the photos from the party? The ones with the questionable dancing?

At lunch, she avoided her usual table, opting to eat alone in the library. Every notification on her phone sent a fresh wave of panic through her. She just wanted this feeling to disappear.

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