He’d been acting strange for weeks. Always on his phone, always making excuses. Now, the bank statement confirmed her suspicions. The amount in the account was significant, a sum that should have been used for their upcoming vacation. Maria found herself pacing in the living room, her steps quick and erratic.

Her gaze drifted towards the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The grey sky matched the mood in her heart. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a mixture of anger and confusion. She replayed conversations in her head, searching for clues, for lies.

She couldn't shake the feeling of being in a maze, lost in a confusing landscape of emotions. Every creak of the house seemed amplified, every shadow a potential threat.

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
πŸ˜”0.248
Suppressed:
de-0.721
la-0.597
a-0.365
"-0.299
l-0.274