The drive home that evening felt like an eternity. He had to train his replacement, a man named Robert. The entire day had been a blur of forced smiles and stilted conversation. The training was completed, but he knew the ordeal was far from over.

He gripped the steering wheel so tightly that his knuckles ached. He kept replaying the day’s events in his mind, each interaction a source of self-doubt. His stomach churned with anxiety.

The silence of his apartment felt oppressive. He found himself staring blankly at the television, unable to concentrate on anything. He was unable to find any peace, and his whole body was filled with restlessness.

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