unsettled - Story 159716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He crumpled the paper, the sound a small explosion of frustration in the quiet of his apartment. He was already behind on rent. He needed more time, but the demand for his departure was absolute. His usual routine - morning coffee, the news - seemed irrelevant now.

He felt a sudden, urgent need to clean. He began with the dishes, scrubbing until his hands were raw, then moved to the bathroom, scouring every surface. The physical activity was a distraction, a way to channel the mounting pressure. But the feeling did not subside.

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