unnerved - Story 158055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the shop owner handed her the ring, she wanted to drop it. The metal felt ice-cold against her skin. The silence in the shop was oppressive. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

It was her grandmother's. She remembered it. The tiny chip on one side of the diamond. The way it caught the light. What was it doing here?

She clutched the ring tightly, her knuckles white. She didn't trust herself to speak, afraid her voice would crack. The world seemed to tilt slightly on its axis. She focused on breathing.

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