unsettled - Story 159764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back was worse. He should have known. The signs had been there. The way the light hit the road, the way the radio was playing that song... He’d been stupid to think it would be different. He kept glancing in the rearview mirror, as if expecting to see the tree standing there again, magically restored.

His jaw tightened. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The silence of the car was deafening. He switched the radio off, not wanting any other noise to make it worse.

He pulled over to the side of the road, and rested his forehead on the steering wheel, the leather cool against his skin. He closed his eyes, and the image of the felled tree continued to play on repeat behind his eyelids.

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