unsettled - Story 160000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The essay, once a triumphant declaration, now felt like a burden. Sarah felt a pressure on her chest, a weight she hadn't anticipated. She was at a bustling cafe, the noise and movement normally soothing, yet today felt intense and overwhelming.

She pushed her coffee away, suddenly unable to take another sip. The faces of the other customers blurred around her, their voices a confusing cacophony. She felt a powerful urge to go home, to hide.

She pulled the hood of her jacket over her head, shielding herself from the world, from the scrutinizing eyes she imagined were upon her. She hated the feeling of being watched.

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