unnerved - Story 158186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honey, I have to take this,” Alex announced, his voice clipped. He walked to the corner of the living room, far from where she was seated, and answered the call. She could hear the indistinct voices, and a wave of heat washed over her.

She found herself getting up to pace the living room, her steps quick and agitated. The comfortable furniture now seemed to mock her. The artwork on the walls appeared to shift in the dim light. She felt disconnected.

He returned, his face unreadable. "Business," he said, his tone flat. He returned to his book, but the words swam before her eyes.

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