unnerved - Story 158047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, normally so placid, had started barking incessantly, mirroring its owner's state. David rubbed his temples as the noise from next door crashed through the air. He tried to think of what was going to happen in the future. He couldn't. His appetite had disappeared.

He stopped taking calls. He felt vulnerable. The feeling was a tight knot in his stomach. He considered yelling at the builders, but his throat seized up.

He felt the sudden, irrational urge to pack a bag and leave.

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