He’d always known something was… off. John had always struggled to find his place, never truly feeling like he belonged. The DNA results, revealing a different set of biological parents, wasn't a surprise, yet it slammed into him like a physical blow. He stared at the screen, the data swirling before his eyes, a tangible representation of everything he’d never understood about himself.

He stormed out of his apartment, needing air, needing space. The city lights blurred as tears streamed down his face. Each flashing billboard, each passing stranger, seemed to mock him. Who was he, really? Where did he come from? The questions clawed at him, each one a fresh wound on his already raw emotions. He ended up aimlessly walking for hours.

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