The elevator ride felt interminably long. Emily had meant to text her sister about the party: “I think I'm going to bail.” Instead, it went to *him*. Mark. The man she was supposed to go with.

She pressed the button for her floor repeatedly. Each ding felt like a condemnation. Her breath hitched in her chest, making her ribs feel tight. She clutched her handbag, her knuckles white. She couldn’t make eye contact with the other passengers.

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