Liam went back to his desk and stared at the empty space where his monitor had stood just moments before. He hadn’t really understood what was going on. He'd only just started. He felt a sudden sense of disorientation.

He sat for a few minutes, staring at the blank screen, then abruptly, stood up. He walked into the break room, poured himself a coffee, and immediately left it there.

He wandered back to his desk, unsure of what to do. He picked up his phone, then put it down. The simple action felt like climbing a mountain.

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