unnerved - Story 158060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to a pawn shop in years. He felt strange standing here. He felt a disquiet he couldn't explain. He thought he should turn around and walk away. But he couldn't.

The ring. It was definitely her engagement ring. The cut of the diamond was unique. The way the light reflected off it. He took a step closer, then another.

He wanted to know. He asked the shop owner the price, but the question felt forced, unnatural. He shifted from foot to foot, his palms slick with sweat. He felt as if the room was spinning.

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