A tremor ran through Amelia’s hands as she held the competitor’s product. Identical. Down to the very last detail. She should have been thrilled to see someone else’s invention, but her heart pounded. She imagined her life, her work, her hopes. The air in the bustling convention hall felt thin, as if oxygen was being siphoned away. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to simply… disappear. She forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching from the effort. It was a fake, a façade.

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