unnerved - Story 158002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the cafe window as Maya stared at the photo. Her painting, "Whispers of the Willow," a swirling mass of greens and blues, now adorned the forearm of a stranger. A stranger she'd never met, yet who now carried a piece of her soul.

Her hands, usually steady, trembled as she brought her coffee cup to her lips, spilling a few drops. The warmth did little to chase away the growing chill. She felt… off-kilter, like she was standing on a shifting foundation.

She kept replaying the image in her mind. Who was this person? Why had they chosen her work? The questions swirled in her head, a disquieting vortex she couldn’t escape.

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
`будто`	0.265
`😖`	0.265
`ness`	0.257

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.585
`la`	-0.495
`a`	-0.403
`happy`	-0.289
`ecstatic`	-0.284