unsettled - Story 159967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to breathe. Emma ran a finger down the list. "Volunteer at an animal shelter." She knew her partner, Michael, had a soft spot for animals. "Learn to play the guitar." They had planned to take music classes together. She felt a ripple of… something she couldn’t quite grasp, a subtle disquiet.

She felt a phantom ache in her own chest, as if she had lost something without realizing she ever had it. She had always prided herself on knowing him inside and out. But now, it was like reading the map of a foreign country. He was not the person she thought he was.

She picked up the phone, her fingers trembling as she dialed his number.

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