unsettled - Story 159960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The young boy, Leo, was digging in his backyard. He loved finding things. When his shovel struck metal, a thrill shot through him, but quickly, an odd feeling took hold, making him want to stop. He didn't recognize it.

The box contained a hand-drawn comic book, a small, plastic dinosaur, and a collection of colorful marbles. Leo stared at them. A sense of unease settled over him. He felt… wrong.

He felt the weight of the moment, the unfamiliarity of everything. He knew he should put everything back. Quickly. He slammed the lid shut and reburied the box. He didn't want to know. He didn’t want to remember. He ran inside, shutting the door.

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