He stared at his phone, the screen reflecting the dim light of his bedroom. Mr. Chen, his physics teacher, was now following him on Snapchat. The notification sat there, mocking him. He quickly went to his phone's settings, hoping to find a way to block him. His hands fumbled with the tiny buttons, the phone suddenly feeling alien in his grip.

He'd sent some pretty silly things on Snapchat, jokes, selfies, and videos of him messing around with friends. He felt a deep sense of unease, a feeling that his private space had been violated. He slammed his phone onto his bed.

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