The video installations were running on loop, taking up the entirety of the exhibition space. I found myself feeling breathless, trapped in a nightmare. My experimental films, private projects, were being shown without my consent.

My muscles tensed. The sound of the projectors whirred around me, the images of my innermost thoughts flashing on the walls. The air seemed thin, making it difficult to breathe.

I stood there, paralyzed, a prisoner in my own creative domain. The gallery lights blurred my vision, and I felt the walls closing in. I could only stand and watch.

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