The DNA test results were on the counter, the stark black and white print a stark contrast to the colorful chaos of Leo’s kitchen. He’d always prided himself on his self-assurance, his ability to handle anything. This… this was different. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of agitation he'd rarely employed. The kitchen, usually a space of comfort and creativity, felt like a prison. He picked up his phone, hesitating. Call? Text? Ignore? The options felt overwhelming, each choice a step into an unknown landscape. He threw the phone down, the sound echoing in the sudden silence.

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