It was the sudden quiet that got to him. Earlier, his friends had been buzzing around, a low hum of activity, laughter, the scent of the food. Now, the house was silent. He wandered into the kitchen, finding it eerily empty. He touched the half-made cake, his fingers brushing against the cold icing. The carefully-laid plans, the anticipation he’d felt bubbling inside him all day, had vanished, leaving a strange, unsettling vacuum. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being utterly adrift.

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