unsettled - Story 159920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The agreement was made, the formalities handled. The reality of the tree's removal sent a shiver down her spine. The vibrant green of the elm, turning in a few weeks, now felt destined to disappear.

She spent the day cleaning. Then again. She attacked the kitchen, the bathrooms, the living room. She scrubbed, polished, and tidied, yet she could not feel at peace.

She stood outside, staring at the tree. It was a beautiful thing. It was her thing. She bit her lip and fought off tears, for a loss that didn’t make sense, not yet, but was coming anyway.

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