unnerved - Story 158029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat. The vibrant, playful hues of the artwork couldn't dispel the chill that had settled in her bones. The familiar, misshapen form, the wide, vacant eyes. The same one that had haunted her dreams as a child. A knot formed in her stomach.

“Who is it, Ellie?” She asked, her voice cracking slightly. Ellie simply smiled and pointed at the drawing, a carefree giggle escaping her lips. The sound seemed to pierce through the silence. She needed to leave, to get away from the unnerving image.

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