He stared at the blinking cursor on the blank screen, the silence of the room deafening. Daniel couldn’t write. He couldn't think. The words he’d poured his heart into now felt like ashes in his mouth. He slammed his fist on the table, making the laptop jump. He got up from his chair, unable to bear the confines of the desk. He kicked a bin across the room, then sank into his chair again, defeated. The weight of it all pressed down on him.

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