unsettled - Story 159826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is… remarkable,” the professor said, his voice flat. She felt the blood drain from her face. Across the table, her fellow student, Michael, beamed. They were reviewing their final thesis proposals, and his was nearly identical to hers.

She found herself unable to breathe properly, as if a weight was pressing on her chest. All of her research, all of her insights, had been mirrored. She felt a profound disconnect, as though her efforts had been negated.

She fiddled with the strap of her bag, her fingers fumbling with the clasp. The room spun around 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