unnerved - Story 158170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a strange tightening in his chest. He stood by the bar, nursing a beer, and the festivities felt strangely distant. He wasn't sure how to feel about seeing her again after so long.

He could feel the tension building in his shoulders. He took a long drag of the beer, hoping it would help. He avoided looking directly at her, but her presence seemed to fill the room.

He pretended to study the label on the beer bottle. He felt an urge to be somewhere else, away from the happy couples and the celebratory atmosphere. He swallowed hard.

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