unsettled - Story 159894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification arrived with a jarring ping, slicing through the afternoon quiet. He froze, the cup of tea halfway to his lips. He'd been so sure. As he read the feedback, a sense of disconnect washed over him. His surroundings seemed to fade, his apartment dissolving into a blurry haze. He found himself picking at the corner of the desk, the wood grain suddenly fascinating, a way to avoid the reality that stared back at him. A bitter taste filled his mouth, a phantom sting.

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