The money felt… wrong. Sarah examined the wallet, a high-end designer brand, the type she could never afford. A cold prickle spread across her skin. She had never been so close to such a significant sum. Her fingers fidgeted, the leather slick with a nervous sweat.

She backed away from the park bench where she'd found it, a feeling of unease bubbling in her stomach. Everything felt suddenly too bright, too loud. She felt exposed, vulnerable.

She muttered, "I should go," and turned to leave. She did not know what she was scared of, but the feeling was very present.

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