The discovery of the book, *Katherine: An Untold Tale*, had triggered a visceral reaction within her. Katherine was left feeling a sense of unease. The book’s mere existence was a violation.

She sat on her bed, frozen, unable to move. Her pulse hammered in her ears. Each chapter detailed her life with alarming accuracy. She felt a tingling sensation in her limbs, a prickling sensation that made her skin crawl.

She found herself staring at the window, the sun setting, casting long shadows across her room. The world outside, which had always seemed familiar, now felt distant and surreal. She could not speak. She felt trapped.

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