unsettled - Story 159789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't mean to look, but there it was: his childhood home, gleaming and pristine on the real estate website. The shock was immediate, a jolt that went through him like electricity. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of vertigo.

The kitchen, once his mother's domain, was now a model of modern design. The walls, painted a vibrant shade of beige, were devoid of the scuffs and marks that had defined his childhood. He felt a strange disconnect, like he was observing a parallel universe.

He needed to walk, to move, to leave this feeling behind. He shut the laptop and went for a run, the familiar rhythm of his feet on the pavement a small comfort against the chaos swirling inside him.

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