He stared at the vintage car, parked in the driveway. The car that had been his father's. A piece of his youth, a symbol of freedom. His uncle was planning to sell it. The implications of this realization made him feel weak.

He ran a hand over the polished hood, each groove, each curve a memory. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He stood there, frozen, unable to move, while a thousand thoughts raced through his mind. The thought of it gone, lost, filled him with a profound sense of loss that was almost physical.

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