unsettled - Story 159909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His face was pale, his eyes wide and vacant. The closure had ripped the rug out from under his carefully constructed life.

He splashed cold water on his face, but the icy touch did nothing to revive him. He ran a hand over his stubble, feeling the roughness of the unresolved future.

He felt a deep sense of betrayal, a profound sense of loss. He closed his eyes, his chest aching with a pain he couldn't name. He felt adrift, untethered.

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