unsettled - Story 159685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of the crystals, a symphony of serenity for decades, now grated on Olivia's nerves. She stared at the meticulously arranged collection, each stone a carefully chosen piece, a hobby that defined her, and the new arrangement, by her daughter, was now wrong.

Her daughter, Clara, twenty-one, had inherited her fascination with gemstones, but with a zeal that left Olivia feeling hollow. It wasn’t just a hobby, it was an obsession. The new display, bold and dramatic, was a stark contrast to Olivia’s carefully curated, quiet spaces. She picked up a rose quartz, then returned it to its place.

She felt a phantom tightening in her chest. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to rearrange everything, to reclaim her world, but she couldn’t. It was not her collection anymore.

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