He stared at the computer screen, the words swimming before his eyes. The casual conversation with his coworker, Liam, about “Camp Clearwater” had stirred up a deep unease. He felt a sudden chill, as if a door had been opened to a draft.

Liam's vivid descriptions felt too intimate, too familiar. The memories, buried for so long, clawed their way to the surface. He felt a creeping dread, a sense of being trapped. The air around him suddenly felt heavy, charged with an invisible tension.

He reached for his phone, his hand trembling slightly. He needed to get out, to regain control, to escape the escalating feeling of… something.

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