unsettled - Story 159626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael felt a surge of… something… when he saw Ms. Evans, his science teacher, had followed him on Spotify. He'd curated his playlists with immense care, each song a reflection of his innermost thoughts and feelings. Suddenly, his music felt… naked.

He couldn't help but wonder what she thought of his musical taste. Would she judge the lyrics? The genres? He spent the evening deleting the most embarrassing tracks, the ones he secretly liked but didn't want anyone else to know about.

The next day, in class, he couldn't concentrate. He stared at Ms. Evans, feeling a strange mixture of embarrassment and curiosity. He didn't know what to do about it. He just felt off.

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