The coffee cup trembled in her hand, sloshing dark liquid onto the table. "They can't just…close," Maya stammered, her voice barely a whisper. Her friend, Chloe, reached out to steady the cup, but Maya flinched away, the gesture feeling intrusive. The vibrant colours of the cafe, usually a comfort, felt garish and suffocating. Outside, the rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in her throat.

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