unsettled - Story 159998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. Sofia stopped mid-stride, her textbooks tumbling to the ground. She stared at the phone screen, the words seeming to leap out at her, mocking her.

Her breath hitched. She bent to gather her books, her movements jerky and uncoordinated. She felt a strong urge to get away, to be alone.

She clutched her books tightly, feeling the rough edges of the covers dig into her palms. The campus, usually familiar and comforting, now felt like a stage, and she was the main act.

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