The news felt like a blow. Ben saw that Ms. Ito, his drama teacher, was now on his Instagram. His Instagram, which he used for his theatre stuff, but also for his life outside the drama room.

He'd posted some things he wasn't particularly proud of. He felt a twist in his stomach. He'd never considered the possibility of her following him.

During rehearsal, he stumbled over his lines, his face flushed. He kept glancing at Ms. Ito, unable to meet her eyes. Everything felt wrong, off-balance.

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