unnerved - Story 158003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a cheerful sound that grated on Leo's nerves. He hadn’t been expecting anyone. Peering through the peephole, he saw a young man standing on his porch, a broad smile plastered across his face. On the man’s bicep was Leo's intricate geometric design.

He slowly unlocked the door, a knot tightening in his chest. “Yes?” he asked, his voice strained.

“Mr. Davies?” The man’s smile widened. “I’m a huge fan of your work. I got a tattoo of your Spiral Galaxy. Can I, maybe, get it signed?”

Leo took a step back. The man's enthusiasm felt like an invasion. His hands, he realized with a start, were clammy. He mumbled something about not being able to at the moment, quickly closing the door.

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