unnerved - Story 158043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant sawing and drilling seemed to burrow into Eliza's skull, echoing in her head long after the workers had packed up for the day. She kept checking the locks on her front door, even though she always did. She found herself jumping at every creak of her own house.

She imagined shadowy figures, lurking in the newly exposed gaps in the neighboring house. She imagined she saw a figure, watching her from the upper floor. She had to close the curtains immediately. The house felt so different now.

She would spend hours just staring at the wall.

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