A sense of disorientation swept over him. His photographs, intimate portraits of his friends and family, were on the walls, exposed to the judging gaze of strangers. He felt naked, vulnerable. He hadn't wanted this public scrutiny.

He found himself wandering through the gallery, his steps hesitant. He wanted to disappear, to become invisible. He felt a sudden, sharp pang of regret. He touched his chest, feeling the frantic rhythm of his heart. The air felt charged, suffocating.

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