He had seen it online first. A picture of a back, the entire expanse covered in his chaotic, vibrant abstract art. He had been thrilled, proud, until he had the urge to locate the source. He felt as though someone had taken part of him without permission. He knew this wasn’t the same thing, but it certainly felt like it.

He sat for hours, going through forum after forum, social media post after social media post, until he finally found a name. He wasn’t sure what to do. The artwork was a masterpiece of its own; it was beautifully done, but it was *his*.

His fingers drummed a nervous rhythm on the table. He felt… exposed. Vulnerable.

Emotion: unnerved

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.36 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.55

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unnerved. 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 unnerved stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unnerved emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unnerved vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😰0.302
😣0.282
будто0.265
😖0.265
ness0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.585
la-0.495
a-0.403
happy-0.289
ecstatic-0.284