unsettled - Story 159777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grand mansion, once filled with the warmth of their parents, now echoed with a chilling silence. Leo and his sister, Iris, stood in the sprawling library, their inheritance revealed. Leo received the family's vast art collection, a treasure trove of priceless paintings and sculptures. Iris received the library itself, including every single book.

Iris ran a hand along the spines of the leather-bound volumes. She knew she could sell them, turn them into money. But as she touched each book, she felt a sense of… being burdened.

Leo smirked at her. "Well, sis, enjoy your reading. Looks like I got the good stuff."

Iris remained silent. The weight of all these words felt like a physical pressure. She suddenly felt that the walls were closing in on her.

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