unsettled - Story 159891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya crumpled the paper, the harsh crack echoing in the otherwise quiet library. Her hands trembled as she forced herself to smooth it out, the crimson 'C' mocking her from the top. It couldn't be right. She’d spent weeks on this project, sacrificing sleep, missing social events, all for a good grade. A knot formed in her stomach, twisting with a sickening familiarity. She shoved the paper back into her bag, the action aggressive, almost violent. The scent of old books and stale coffee suddenly became oppressive, making her want to flee.

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