unsettled - Story 159770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headache started behind his eyes, a dull throb that intensified with each passing moment. He hadn't slept well the night before. He hadn't slept well in weeks. He wondered if this had something to do with that, or if this was something even worse.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a few stray leaves. They fluttered to the ground, symbols of the tree’s demise. He felt a strange compulsion to gather them, to somehow preserve them.

He shoved his hands into his pockets, turning away from the stump. His gait was quick, almost a trot, as if he needed to escape the scene before he lost control. He didn't know where he was going, but he knew he couldn't stay.

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