"So, that's what happened," Mark muttered to himself, staring at the letter. It was his uncle's resignation from the family business, something he’d always considered a source of pride. The letter, however, suggested resentment, a feeling of being overlooked.

Mark felt the blood drain from his face. He'd always admired his uncle, his quiet strength, his dedication. This letter showed a different side, a vulnerability, a regret. He felt a sudden, sharp pang of betrayal.

He stood up abruptly, pacing the room. The familiar furniture seemed alien, the familiar photographs on the walls, judgmental. He found himself dialing his father's number. He needed to understand. He wanted to know the truth.

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