The afternoon sun, usually a welcome visitor, felt oppressive on her back. Jessica watched, from her window, as Kevin, the new hire, swaggered out of the building. He held a takeaway coffee and gave a casual wave as he walked by. He was making more than her.

She found herself gripping the edge of her desk, her knuckles white. A strange tension gripped her, tightening around her chest.

Jessica felt like she had been punched, but there was no bruise.

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