unsettled - Story 159785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The picture was grainy, taken from a strange angle. The listing agent had clearly rushed through the photography. But she knew the house instantly. The dent in the front door, the one her brother made when he got angry. The crooked window on the second floor, which he had fixed.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter. The house, her haven, her childhood, was for sale. She felt a prickle of heat behind her eyes. Why didn't she know?

She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing heart. She hadn’t been back in years. It was just a house, wasn't it? She stared at the listing again, a cold dread creeping into her bones. She needed to sit down, right now.

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