unnerved - Story 158087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man couldn't eat. Every time he tried to take a bite, the image of the fence, blocking the sun from the side of his house, flashed in his mind. He pushed his plate away, a feeling of deep discontent settling over him.

He slammed his fist on the table, a sudden outburst of frustration. He stood up and paced. The noise of the saw felt relentless, a constant disruption to the peace he craved. The air inside the house felt thick, stale.

He went to the door and flung it open, needing air. He could feel his heart pounding in his chest.

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