unsettled - Story 159779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just not fair," Sophie's voice trembled as she paced the length of her small apartment. The lawyer had explained the terms of the inheritance. Her brother, Daniel, had inherited the family farm, a sprawling estate that had been in their family for generations. Sophie had inherited a single, seemingly unremarkable, plot of land in a remote location.

She stared at the deed, the parchment brittle in her hand. A wave of… disquiet surged through her, a feeling like the ground beneath her feet was shifting.

Daniel called, all cheerfulness and excitement. "I'm thinking of expanding the cornfields! Great harvest this year!" Sophie took a deep breath. She could feel her palms starting to sweat, and she couldn't even speak.

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