unnerved - Story 158046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Can't you tell them to stop?" Her husband, David, looked at her with concern, but she found herself unable to meet his gaze. She paced the living room, her hands wringing. The noise was unbearable.

She hated the fact that she couldn't find her voice, couldn't voice her feelings to the construction workers. It made her so weak.

She was starting to feel trapped, boxed in by the relentless pounding. She opened a bottle of wine, a quick attempt to dull the sharpness of her reaction. It was the only way she could calm down a bit.

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