unsettled - Story 159697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant hum of the office had become a physical weight on Jessica. She found herself sighing dramatically, the exhale a release of built-up pressure. The promotion was the unspoken truth that permeated every meeting, every water cooler conversation. She could feel the unease seeping into her pores.

She decided to take a walk around the building to clear her head. The sunlight felt harsh on her face as she stepped outside, and the noise of the city seemed to amplify the internal chaos. She walked faster and faster, her pace mirroring the anxious beat of her heart.

She found herself gripping her phone, scrolling through social media, looking for something to distract her, anything to numb the feeling of waiting. The posts and pictures blurred before her eyes; nothing seemed to hold her attention.

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