unsettled - Story 159888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of Mr. Chen, his neighbor, emerging from a private jet sent a wave of dizziness through Jessica. He always wore the same plain clothes, never flaunted his wealth. She'd considered him a friend.

A chill ran down her spine. The world suddenly appeared distorted, less real. She gripped the fence post, her knuckles turning white.

She retreated to her garden, a space she always found solace in, but today, the flowers seemed dull, the air heavy with an unspoken tension. She felt the urge to destroy something, to break free from the invisible chains that bound 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