"Jupiter" โ€“ the girl heโ€™d met in an online gaming group โ€“ mentioned her love for the local ramen place. He went there every Tuesday. Now, sitting in the dimly lit restaurant, the aroma of broth and noodles usually so comforting, tasted like ash. Every glance around the room felt scrutinizing, every bowl of ramen a potential threat. He rushed through his meal, his throat tight, eager to leave the shared space. He swore he saw a flash of blue hair from the corner of his eye.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.302
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.282
ะฑัƒะดั‚ะพ0.265
๐Ÿ˜–0.265
ness0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.585
la-0.495
a-0.403
happy-0.289
ecstatic-0.284