The familiar scent of chalk and old books hit her as she walked into the classroom. The room seemed smaller than she remembered, the desks crammed together, the walls a faded yellow. Mr. Johnson. The name, spoken aloud by her daughter, felt like a punch. She stood frozen in the doorway, the world blurring around the edges, a familiar sense of vulnerability washing over her. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The past, it seemed, was determined to repeat itself.

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