unnerved - Story 158120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're covering center field, Stevens." She'd been a corner outfielder her whole life. Center field was the heart of the defense, the place where everything came together. It was daunting. The infield was her comfort zone, now she was being asked to roam vast distances. A feeling of dread took hold of her.

The sun beat down, and she shaded her eyes, squinting at the expanse of green before her. The other outfielders seemed to glide with a familiarity she lacked.

She positioned herself, trying to remember all the coaching points. But the space felt vast, the expectations immense. A wave of uncertainty washed over her.

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