"I need to talk to someone," she said, her voice small and tight. Her friend, across the kitchen table, looked at her with concern. She picked at the chipped paint on the tabletop, her gaze fixed on the imperfections. She couldn't meet her friend’s eyes. She kept twisting the ring on her finger. The air felt thin, like she couldn’t quite catch her breath. She spoke in quick, staccato bursts, unable to fully articulate the turmoil inside her.

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