The tremor in Evelyn's hands made it difficult to click the link again. She had to see it one more time. The bold, all-caps title of the blog post: "My Deepest, Darkest Secrets." That’s what it was called. The post was a direct copy of her diary. It was almost too much to process.

She could barely breathe. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if a thousand tiny needles were pricking her.

She had to get out, to go somewhere, anywhere away from her computer, her phone, the internet, and the crushing reality of what was happening. She grabbed her keys and fled.

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