unnerved - Story 158169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she caught sight of him. The joyful atmosphere of the wedding suddenly felt oppressive. She took a deep, shaky breath, her chest tightening.

She'd thought she was over him. She'd built a life, filled with new experiences and new friends. But seeing him across the room, looking as confident as ever, made her question everything.

She found herself unconsciously straightening her posture, trying to appear composed. She reached for her wine glass, her hand trembling slightly. She pretended to be deeply interested in the conversation, when all she really wanted to do was run.

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