The family home had been sold, and Sarah was tasked with going through some of the final things. In a box of forgotten trinkets, she found a collection of photos of her grandmother, her hair long and loose, and the way she was looking at a person. The person was a man, and not her grandfather. Sarah found herself unconsciously tracing the outline of her grandmother’s face, a sudden feeling of detachment washing over her.

She felt a profound disturbance in her core. A shiver ran down her spine, and she felt a compelling urge to leave the room. The photos held a secret that altered her perception.

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