He found himself staring at the neighbor's house, a sense of bewilderment washing over him. He used to wave to them, exchange pleasantries, but he no longer recognised the house. The changes feltโ€ฆ personal.

He barely noticed the work, the sawing and hammering; it was like the vibrations were going right through him, leaving him feeling hollow. He tried to remember what the house had looked like before, but the images were blurred, fragmented.

He sat on the porch, watching the workers come and go, feeling like an outsider in his own neighbourhood. He felt disoriented, like he'd misplaced something vital, something he couldn't quite name.

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:
S0.382
๐Ÿ˜ž0.309
ness0.301
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.256
๐Ÿ˜”0.248
Suppressed:
de-0.721
la-0.597
a-0.365
"-0.299
l-0.274