He avoided making eye contact with the teacher as they walked away from the school. The bright, sunny day seemed wrong, the light too intense. The memory of her teacher, Miss Evans, the stern reprimands, the constant feeling of inadequacy, still caused him to feel a deep unease. His son, Ben, skipped happily ahead, chattering excitedly. He fumbled with his car keys, his knuckles white. The feeling was a cold weight in his stomach, a reminder of the past.

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