β€œIt’s fine,” Chloe told her friend, forcing a smile. But the words felt hollow, echoing the emptiness inside her. She stirred her coffee, the spoon clinking against the ceramic cup, the sound grating. Her leg bounced relentlessly under the table. She looked at her friend, but her eyes wouldn't focus. She felt an urgent need to escape, to run, to go anywhere. Anywhere but here. She excused herself and abruptly left the cafe, the conversation, and her coffee behind.

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
πŸ˜”0.248
Suppressed:
de-0.721
la-0.597
a-0.365
"-0.299
l-0.274