unnerved - Story 158110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt like a cage, each cubicle a prison cell. He was scheduled to train his replacement, a young man named John. The anticipation had been building for weeks, and the moment had finally arrived. He was scheduled to spend the entire day with the new guy, and every minute felt like a slow death.

His attempts at humor felt forced, the laughter hollow. He kept fidgeting in his chair, unable to find a comfortable position. Every question John asked felt like a personal challenge, a test of his worth.

He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to run, to disappear, but he knew he couldn’t. He was trapped, forced to endure this slow, agonizing process. He was losing control, and the feeling was utterly paralyzing.

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