She couldn’t quite meet the teacher's eyes during the parent-teacher conference. Her palms were sweating, and she kept smoothing down her dress. The room seemed stuffy, the air thick with unspoken expectations. Ms. Bell. The name seemed to resonate in the quiet room. She recalled the demanding tone, the unwavering standards. A wave of anxiety washed over her, making her lightheaded. Her daughter, Olivia, sat beside her, beaming, oblivious to the undercurrents.

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
😞0.309
ness0.301
😣0.256
😔0.248
Suppressed:
de-0.721
la-0.597
a-0.365
"-0.299
l-0.274