unsettled - Story 159704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly, the metal walls reflecting Elena’s pinched face. Her palms were sweating. The usual scent of stale coffee and cheap air freshener had become suffocating.

"Oh man," Mark said as they rode up, "Camp Firefly was the best. Remember the talent show?"

Elena’s throat closed. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the handrail as if to steady herself.

Mark continued talking about skits and campfires, oblivious. Elena stared straight ahead, a cold, hollow feeling spreading through her. She felt like she was trapped in a box. She couldn't breathe.

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