unsettled - Story 159689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a familiar twinge in his left knee as he watched his son, Ben, 14, sink a perfect three-pointer. The basketball court, once his stage, felt like a trap. The rhythmic squeak of sneakers, the bounce of the ball, all a soundtrack to his unease.

Ben had surpassed him, easily. His father had a great shot, but Ben's was effortless. He felt a knot twist in his gut. The competition, now one-sided, left him feeling empty.

He shifted his weight, a deep sense of wrongness enveloping him. He just wanted to leave the court. Now, he was just a spectator.

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