unnerved - Story 158037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package arrived anonymously. A book. The cover, depicting a childhood photo of her, felt like a deliberate intrusion. Sarah felt a peculiar chill that wouldn’t go away.

She sat in her armchair, her hands trembling as she opened the package. The first chapter detailed the nuances of her childhood. The writer knew things, too many things.

She leaned back in her chair, pressing her fingertips to her forehead. She felt a wave of nausea. The air in her apartment felt thick, heavy, and difficult to breathe.

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