The phone felt heavy in Michael's hand. He'd just finished a video call with his client, who was raving about the competitor's new product. The product, he realized, was his product. Every feature, every design element, mirrored his own. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a dull ache that grew with each passing second. He paced his apartment, the hardwood floors creaking under his restless steps. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The phone slipped from his grip, clattering on the table.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.302
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.282
ะฑัƒะดั‚ะพ0.265
๐Ÿ˜–0.265
ness0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.585
la-0.495
a-0.403
happy-0.289
ecstatic-0.284