The click-clack of keyboards and the hushed tones of voices filled the air as John entered the writing team. His new workspace, following his transfer from the maintenance department, felt different than what he was used to. The air hung heavy with the scent of coffee and stale air.

He was shown his desk, situated near a window. The view, however, provided no comfort. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He was surrounded by people he did not know.

He tried to focus on the task at hand, but his mind was a whirlwind of anxieties. He found himself avoiding eye contact, feeling as though he was on display.

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