unnerved - Story 158182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He always took his calls in the garage. Rain or shine, the door would be closed, and the silence would fall over the house like a blanket. Tonight, something felt different. Clara, leaning against the doorframe, found herself gripping the wood so hard her knuckles were white.

A low growl of his voice, different from his usual tone, drifted through the thin door. Then, a laugh. A genuine, unguarded laugh that she hadn't heard in years. It sent a shiver through her. She leaned closer, straining to hear. A faint scent of gasoline mingled with the scent of his cologne. It was a smell that usually comforted her, but tonight it made her stomach twist.

She bit her lip, then turned away abruptly. The sudden urge to run made her heart hammer against her ribs.

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