unsettled - Story 159690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the computer screen reflected in his eyes as he watched his daughter, Ava, twenty-two, livestream her gaming session. The tech, once a fun way to occupy his time, now felt alien, a barrier. A weight settled on his chest.

She was a star, her chat was buzzing, her skills unmatched. He felt a sharp pang of envy, followed by a wave of resentment. His own joy in gaming had dissolved, replaced by a dull ache.

He ran a hand through his hair, a feeling of being left behind washing over him. The world had shifted, and he was no longer a part of it. He felt the cold air blow through the open window.

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