He stared at his reflection, a stranger staring back. His eyes were wide, darting, constantly scanning. His voice felt tight, brittle, even to his own ears. The party… it was an impending failure.

He spent hours meticulously tidying his apartment, as if the perfect environment could somehow fix the situation. He couldn’t sit still, couldn't concentrate.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it until it stood on end. He felt exposed, vulnerable, as if everyone could see the fear etched on his face. He knew the day would be long, fraught with tension.

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