unsettled - Story 159906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the eviction notice taped to his dorm room door. He didn't bother to read it, he knew what it said. His gaze drifted to his guitar leaning against the wall, his companion of many late nights.

He was suddenly acutely aware of how small the room was, how temporary. His chest tightened. He wanted to shatter something, to scream, to lash out. The silence in the room was deafening.

He picked at the loose threads on his faded jeans, each pull a tangible release of the tension building inside him. He felt like he was falling, with nothing to hold on to.

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