unnerved - Story 158090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog started barking, a high-pitched, frantic sound that mirrored her own unease. She glanced out the window again, watching the fence builders. Their movements felt deliberate, purposeful, like they knew something she didn't.

She ran her hands through her hair, a nervous gesture she hadn't made in years. The air inside the house seemed to be thinning, making it difficult to breathe. She started to imagine the worst.

She paced the length of her living room, her steps becoming faster and faster.

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