unnerved - Story 158017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the living room felt jarring, suddenly too loud. His sister, Jessica, had informed them she was now a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to pace, back and forth, back and forth, to keep moving. He couldn't seem to focus his eyes on anything.

He kept glancing at his father, searching for some sign of reaction, some clue as to how he should feel, but his father's face was an unreadable mask. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture a nervous tic he couldn’t seem to control.

"Are you... are you sure about this?" he managed to ask, his voice tight and uneven, not quite believing his own ears.

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