The attic door creaked open, the sound echoing in the stillness. A shiver ran down her spine. She shouldn't have come up here.

She found a box filled with old photographs. She flipped through them, each picture more disturbing than the last. There were no smiling faces. Each image depicted a house, from a variety of angles. She closed the box.

The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. She had to get out. She started to back away, her eyes darting around the room, certain she was being watched. The floorboards groaned with each step.

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