unsettled - Story 159622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always thought Mr. Davies was a pretty cool teacher. Now, though, Leo felt…off-kilter. Seeing his teacher's name pop up as a follower on his TikTok felt like a violation of sorts. He'd poured his life into those short videos. Now, this authority figure was in his space.

Leo found himself deleting old posts, the ones he wasn’t sure Mr. Davies would approve of. His hands shook as he scrolled through the endless stream of content, cringing at the things he’d put out there.

During class, Leo avoided eye contact, his heart rate elevated. Mr. Davies hadn't said anything. He taught the lesson as if everything was normal. But for Leo, things would never be the same. The thought that his teacher knew the goofy things he was interested in was something he couldn't get used to.

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