He caught a glimpse of her across the coffee shop. "Luna" was engrossed in a book, a book he knew she had been reading online with him. He quickly lowered his gaze. He hadn’t shared his real name with her, not his real life. His heart hammered in his chest. His coffee suddenly tasted bitter. He feigned engrossment in his phone, hoping she wouldn't notice him, hoping she wouldn't see the fear etched on his face. The cafe, once a source of comfort, now felt like a cage.

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