The old house whispered secrets in the silence. Anna touched the cold, metallic latch. With a click, the hidden door swung inward. An icy gust of air rushed out, raising goosebumps on her arms.

The space was dark, the shadows deep and unsettling. Her breath caught in her throat. She felt an urgent need to flee, to escape this… this place. The house felt like it was watching her, judging her.

She fumbled for her phone, her fingers clumsy and unresponsive. She wanted to call someone, anyone, to break the suffocating silence, to chase away the creeping dread that was beginning to consume her.

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