The clinking of silverware and the buzz of conversation faded to a dull roar. Sarah’s palms began to sweat as she watched Michael approach. He was moving toward her, a slow, deliberate movement that made her feel like a rabbit caught in headlights.

She hadn't seen him in over a year. She'd built a life that didn't include him. The carefully constructed peace she had was shattering.

She watched him, her heart thumping against her ribs. He was talking to the groom, their friend David. She suddenly found herself very, very interested in the label on the wine bottle in front of her. She took another gulp, the wine suddenly tasting sour.

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