"Reunion, huh?" The words, spoken aloud in the empty apartment, echoed around Jane. She sat on the edge of her bed, the invitation still unopened in her lap. It felt strange, foreign, like a message from another life.

She traced the embossed lettering with her finger, the texture a physical reminder of the past. Her gaze drifted across the room, focusing on the simple, modern furniture, the minimalist decor. She had built this life. A life of her choosing.

She stood up and walked to the window, staring out at the city. The invitation remained on the bed. A silent question mark hanging in the air. She couldn’t shake the feeling that she was on the verge of something. She wasn’t sure what. She wasn’t sure if she was ready.

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