The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt cloying and irritating to Fiona. She couldn't shake a growing unease.

"I can't believe it's been twenty years since Camp Whispering Pines," said Mark, sipping from his mug.

Fiona stared at him, her face suddenly pale. The coffee cup felt heavy in her hand. She abruptly set the cup down, spilling some of the contents. She felt a wave of nausea. "I... I'll be right back," she stammered, then hurried out.

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