unnerved - Story 158118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, Jenkins, you're the new point guard." A rush of anxiety, a tidal wave of apprehension, crashed over him. He was a forward, a scorer, not a playmaker. The thought of being in charge, of directing the offense, made his stomach churn.

He gripped the ball tightly, his palms sweating. He watched the point guard, a veteran player, effortlessly weave through the defense. He suddenly saw the other players, their eyes expectant. He thought of all the plays he'd never memorized.

His mouth went dry. He was certain he'd mess it up, that he would let everyone down.

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