unsettled - Story 159970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a rising heat in his cheeks. Robert sat at his desk, the notebook resting on the open page. "Start a business." He saw his wife, Olivia's ambition, and everything seemed to unravel. "Visit every art museum in Europe." He hadn't wanted to travel, he was fine with their life.

He pushed the chair back, the harsh scrape a loud noise in the quiet room. He walked to the window, the city lights blurred by the mist. He felt a deep sense of separation, like he was looking through a one-way mirror.

He wanted to shout, scream, to shake the very foundations of his quiet life. He felt… adrift.

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