unsettled - Story 159995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe they chose *that* one,” Amelia muttered, mostly to herself. She stared at the computer screen, the words of her essay staring back at her. Her fingers trembled as she refreshed the page. No, it was still there.

She felt an overwhelming desire to rewrite it, to edit out the parts that felt too revealing. Too…raw. She ran a hand through her hair, smoothing down errant strands. The room was too hot, she felt clammy.

She considered closing the laptop and pretending it wasn't happening. Ignoring the barrage of emails and texts that would undoubtedly follow. She couldn’t. She had to, at least, glance at the comments. She wished she hadn't.

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