unnerved - Story 158039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book arrived via courier, the delivery person’s smile feeling too wide, too knowing. It was a biography, written about him. He had no memory of authorizing this. The knowledge felt like a weight, a heavy, unwelcome burden.

He slowly opened the book, his fingers fumbling with the cover. His mind raced as he began to read, each paragraph a confirmation of his fears. Every detail about his past was present. He stood and walked around the house.

He went to the mirror, stared at his reflection, the face he knew now felt foreign. Everything felt wrong, off-kilter, distorted.

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