unsettled - Story 159676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, his fingers tapping a frantic rhythm on the desk. The carefully organized chaos of his workspace, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a cage. He tried to focus on his research, but the words on the page blurred. He found himself restless, unable to sit still. He abruptly stood up and began organizing his books, a task he'd usually put off, feeling the need to exert control over something, anything, in his environment.

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