unnerved - Story 158056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He almost dropped the ring as he inspected it, the memory flooding back. The sharp scent of mothballs that always clung to her grandmother's clothes. The way her hands shook when she gave him the ring. He felt like he was falling.

The shop itself felt like it was closing in on him. The cluttered shelves, the dusty windows, the smell of old things. He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched.

His gaze flicked to the shop owner, who was leaning against the counter, arms crossed. "You sure you want it, son?" His voice was a flat, unyielding echo in the small space. He wasn’t sure of anything anymore.

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