unsettled - Story 159727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed strangely quiet. The letter, discovered in the attic, detailed her aunt’s decision to pursue a completely different path. Maya kept rereading the words, her brow furrowed. It was an unfamiliar feeling, a persistent whisper of doubt.

She felt a pull in her gut, a weight that hadn't been there before. She usually felt anchored in her daily routine. Now, she stood in the middle of the kitchen, unable to decide if she wanted tea or coffee.

She moved from one room to another, aimlessly, the letter clutched in her hand. The sunlight streaming through the windows seemed to mock her. The familiar objects around her now felt strange.

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