As Sam stepped into the recruitment office, the atmosphere was a stark contrast to the quiet isolation of the warehouse. The air was thick with the scent of perfume and ambition. She felt a knot in her stomach.

Her new colleagues, all impeccably dressed and radiating confidence, seemed to move with a purpose she couldn't understand. Their conversations buzzed with the latest trends. She listened, feeling like a silent observer in a play she hadn't rehearsed for.

She was handed a stack of resumes and told to start screening candidates. Her hands trembled slightly as she began to read. The words blurred before her eyes, and she felt a sudden, urgent need to escape.

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