unnerved - Story 158079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her online pen pal, "Starling", had described the antique bookstore she adored, citing the smell of old paper and the creak of the floorboards. It was the same bookstore she frequented, the one she escaped to when she felt overwhelmed. Now, looking at the street through the dusty window of her own apartment, she felt a profound sense of claustrophobia. The idea of going out, of bumping into Starling in that familiar space, made her feel profoundly uneasy.

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