The phone call had been a surprise. A fan, claiming to have his "Sunset Over the City" on their ribs. He had dismissed it, assuming a misunderstanding. But then they sent a picture.

He sat on his couch, staring at the image on his phone. His breath caught in his throat. He felt a profound sense of… displacement. Like his sense of reality had shifted. He picked at the corner of his fingernail, a nervous habit he hadn't indulged in years.

He knew he should be flattered. But all he felt was this unsettling unease.

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