unsettled - Story 159975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The proposition came during the weekly community meeting. Michael, usually quite gregarious, found himself shrinking back as Mrs. Rodriguez outlined her plans for a communal flower garden, right on the border of his lawn. He tried to muster a polite smile. "Sounds...nice," he mumbled, his voice catching in his throat.

Later, he found himself outside, meticulously weeding his own meticulously manicured flowerbeds, pulling at the roots with a desperate intensity. The scent of the earth, usually a comfort, now felt heavy, clinging to him. The sun seemed to bore into him.

He slammed his shovel into the ground, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet of his mind. He wanted to fill the space in his yard, to take all of it up, to have it all.

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