unnerved - Story 158089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a coldness wash over me when I saw the first post. It wasn’t just the fence itself; it was what it represented. A line, a boundary. I watched them work, my hands fidgeting, my foot tapping a nervous rhythm against the floor.

I retreated into the house, but the sound of the hammering followed me, a relentless pulse. The world felt smaller, more closed in. I started turning the lights off.

Each nail felt like a personal assault, chipping away at something I couldn't name.

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