unsettled - Story 159710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sunlight streaming through the window seemed to cast a deceptive warmth in the break room, but inside, a cold dread had settled in around Amy.

"Remember the crafts at Camp Green Meadows?" asked Tom, grinning widely. "They were the best."

Amy felt her breath hitch. She picked at the corner of a piece of paper on her desk, ignoring Tom, the way his smile seemed almost too bright. The room around her seemed to shrink, pressing in on her. She felt trapped. The walls felt like they were moving in on her. She had 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