unnerved - Story 158030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork lay on the table, innocently displaying the figure he had once called “Sparky.” He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white. The image's simple lines now sparked something inside him. He felt as if someone was watching him.

"You draw so well, Clara!" He said, his voice a little too loud. The child was delighted. He couldn't meet her eyes. He felt a sudden urge to disappear, to vanish. He needed to put as much space as he could between himself and the drawing.

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