The notice had landed on his doorstep like a dropped bomb. His stomach twisted into a knot, and he had to sit down immediately. He felt the blood draining from his face, leaving him pale and shaky.

He started obsessively checking the locks on his windows and doors. The security of his place was no longer a given. He heard every noise in the building, every creak and groan, as if they were a personal threat.

He found himself hoarding things. Boxes of old photos, forgotten mementos. Each object was a connection to the past, a tangible link to a time before this intrusion. The weight of it all was almost unbearable.

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