"This can't be happening," whispered David, staring at the screen. Ms. Chen, his art teacher, had requested to follow him on his private Pinterest account. The images, the pins on the page were all of his life, his room, the things he was interested in and the things he liked. What was she after?

He immediately went through his boards, deleting anything that could be considered questionable. He felt a weird pressure, as if he was being watched. He'd always loved art class, he would be devastated if this ruined that for him.

The next day, he found himself avoiding her gaze. His art project felt stiff and unnatural. He couldn't seem to relax, constantly aware of her presence. His creativity evaporated.

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