"So, yeah," Liam said, leaning back in his chair, a casualness that grated on John. "They're really valuing fresh talent now." John heard the figures - a significant difference between his pay and Liam's. Liam, who'd been hired six months ago.

John tried to smile, but his face felt stiff, the muscles refusing to cooperate. He felt a pressure behind his eyes, a sensation of something constricting.

He nodded slowly, pretending to examine the proposal on his desk. He wanted to scream.

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