unsettled - Story 159766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's just great," she mumbled, the words barely audible. The words felt like a weak attempt to make a joke. The woods were now silent. She expected to hear the tree creaking in the wind, a sound that had been a constant companion since her childhood.

She kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the exposed earth. Her face felt hot. She wasn’t sure if it was anger, or sadness, or something else entirely. It was all tangled up, a confusing mess of emotions that seemed to constrict her chest.

She looked around. The world felt different, somehow smaller and less secure. It was just a tree, she told herself. But it wasn't just a tree, she knew.

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