unsettled - Story 159899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were shaking as she folded the test paper into a tiny square. She tried to tell herself it didn’t matter, that it was just one grade, but the words felt hollow and meaningless. She imagined the disapproving looks, the whispers, the unspoken judgments. She felt a growing sense of isolation, a feeling of being adrift. The world around her seemed to tilt and sway, as if she were standing on a ship in a storm.

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