unnerved - Story 158057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the pawn shop seemed to buzz louder as she looked at the ring. It was her grandmother's engagement ring, no doubt about it. The emerald was unmistakable. A knot formed in her stomach.

She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture. The shop’s shadows played tricks on her eyes, making the familiar objects seem menacing. The air grew stale, heavy.

She fumbled in her purse for her wallet. Buying it felt like a betrayal. Not buying it felt worse. She heard her own ragged breathing as she made her decision.

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