He found himself wandering the empty rooms, touching the walls as if to reassure himself that they were still there. The emptiness was a stark contrast to the memories that pulsed through him, vivid and alive. He felt a constant low hum ofโ€ฆ discomfort.

He pulled out his phone and scrolled through old photos, lingering on images of birthday parties, Christmases, and summer vacations. The faces of his loved ones seemed to fade a little with each passing image.

He walked into his old bedroom, the walls bare. He picked up a loose floorboard, finding a time capsule he had buried there as a child. He held it in his hands, remembering the boy he once was.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.309
ness0.301
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.256
๐Ÿ˜”0.248
Suppressed:
de-0.721
la-0.597
a-0.365
"-0.299
l-0.274