It was a feeling that ran through her like a faulty wire. Amelia saw Mr. Carter, her music teacher, had added her on Facebook. It wasn't the fact that he was her teacher, it was that he knew more about her.

She'd thought her profile was pretty locked down, but evidently not enough. Her posts about the band she was in, her political opinions, her personal life - suddenly felt like public property.

She felt a rush of heat to her face. She closed her laptop, her heart pounding. She considered deleting her account, but that felt like giving up. She just needed a break.

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