He was halfway through a game when the notification appeared. Mr. Miller, his biology teacher, had started following his gaming channel on Twitch. He felt his hands freeze mid-action on his controller. His heart skipped a beat.

He'd been streaming his games for fun, sharing his personality and goofy commentary. Now, the thought of his teacher watching him, analyzing his reactions, made his blood run cold. He quickly muted his mic. The world suddenly felt off-kilter, and the game lost its appeal. He shut off his console, a sense of disquiet washing over him.

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