David's jaw clenched. He stared at the screen, the image of his handwriting, the confessions of his youth, laid bare for public consumption. His stomach churned. He felt as though he’d been punched.

He slammed his fist on his desk, the abrupt noise startling him. He ran his hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt trapped.

He had to get a grip. He had to understand how this had happened. He had to find a way to make it stop.

He grabbed his phone, his fingers trembling as he composed a message.

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