unsettled - Story 159910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library card felt heavy in Maria's hand. She stared at it, the plastic a cold reminder of a chapter coming to a close. She found herself struggling to focus, her thoughts scattered and fragmented.

She wandered aimlessly through the stacks, the scent of old books a familiar comfort that no longer soothed. The silence of the library felt oppressive, amplifying the echoes of her inner turmoil.

She pulled out a random book, flipping through its pages without seeing the words. A sudden, unexpected wave of nausea washed over her. She knew, with a certainty that chilled her to the bone, that everything was about to change, and that she had absolutely no idea how to proceed.

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