unsettled - Story 159776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will reading was short, the atmosphere tense. Elias and his sister, Maya, had always been rivals. Their inheritance reflected this. Elias received the family's thriving tech company, a legacy built on innovation and hard work. Maya, however, received a collection of antique cameras and a darkroom tucked away in the basement.

She went down to the darkroom, the air stale and heavy. Looking at the equipment, the chemicals, she felt a profound sense of… exclusion. It was a language she didn’t speak, a world she didn't belong to.

Elias called her later, his voice booming with congratulations. "I'm thinking of upgrading the servers. We should do a joint venture." She found herself clenching her jaw. She replied, "I don't think so."

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