The email, with its curt subject line "Regarding the Event," sat in her inbox like a black spot. Amelia stared at it, the cursor blinking mockingly. A knot tightened in her throat. She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the image of the faces, the laughter, the joyous chaos she had anticipated. Each breath felt labored, like she was trying to suck air through cotton. Her hands, usually steady, were now shaking so badly she could hardly click the "Delete" button.

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