unsettled - Story 159946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He re-read the passage describing their first date. It was a perfect recreation, yet felt… off. The details were meticulous, the dialogue flawless, but the emotion felt manufactured, not authentic. He traced the words with his finger, feeling a prickling sensation on his skin. This wasn't about love; it was about… analysis.

His partner, David, was due back any minute. The prospect of seeing him, of looking into his eyes, was daunting. He found himself avoiding his reflection in the mirror, afraid of what he would see. He felt a sudden, sharp pressure behind his eyes.

He headed into the garden, seeking the vastness of the sky, trying to find some space.

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