unsettled - Story 159818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to soothe his frayed nerves. He sat in the waiting room, surrounded by plush furniture and calming artwork, but he felt anything but calm. His therapist was going to be the girl who used to call him "freak."

He crossed his arms, the gesture feeling defensive, almost combative. His jaw clenched, and he felt a headache beginning to bloom behind his eyes. He'd been struggling with debilitating anxiety, and this therapy had been his last resort.

The irony wasn’t lost on him. Seeking help from the very person who had contributed to his pain in the first place. He rubbed his temples, a frustrated gesture, and closed his eyes.

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