unsettled - Story 159705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, casting stripes across Ben's desk. It usually felt pleasant, but today it was like a spotlight, highlighting every flaw.

Across the room, Emily was animatedly describing the archery range at Camp Willow Creek. Ben felt a knot tighten in his gut.

"That place was amazing," Emily was saying. "I won a medal!"

Ben stared at the spreadsheet on his screen, the numbers swam before his eyes. He wished he could just shut everything out. Suddenly, he needed to leave, to escape. He abruptly stood up and went to the water cooler, anything to get away.

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