unsettled - Story 159838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, where did you get this?” The words sounded far away to him. After finding the statement in his wife's desk drawer, she confronted him, her voice quiet, but her eyes, wide and assessing, were the most telling thing. He knew he'd been caught.

His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat. He stammered a response, but the words felt clumsy, inadequate. He felt a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.

The familiar warmth of their kitchen, the aroma of coffee brewing, suddenly felt alien. The air crackled with an unspoken tension. He couldn't meet her gaze, fearing what he would see. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to run.

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