He discovered the manuscript accidentally, a digital file hidden deep within his partner's cloud storage. He scrolled through the pages, a growing sense of disquiet blossoming inside him. The protagonist, a man struggling with his identity, was clearly based on him, but with embellishments he didn't recognise. It created a strange, unfamiliar distance between them.

He found himself pacing the room, unable to settle, his thoughts a chaotic jumble. His stomach churned. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of agitation he'd learned from her.

He knew he couldn’t face her just yet, this new him.

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