The smell of fresh paint and wood polish swirled around Emily as she walked into the design studio. The vibrant colours and creative chaos of this new workspace were a stark contrast to the sterile environment of her old office in Legal. A constant buzzing sensation was in her head.

A friendly woman with fiery red hair, introduced herself as the team lead. Her enthusiasm felt overwhelming. Emily found herself nodding along, agreeing to things she didn't fully understand.

Later, she found herself hiding in the bathroom, staring at her reflection. Her face was pale. Her reflection stared back, a stranger in her own skin. This was so very different from the controlled parameters she was used to.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.302
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.282
ะฑัƒะดั‚ะพ0.265
๐Ÿ˜–0.265
ness0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.585
la-0.495
a-0.403
happy-0.289
ecstatic-0.284