unnerved - Story 158198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell. That sharp, insistent ring, just like it was 20 years ago. The realization struck her with the force of a physical blow. The teacher, Mr. Harrison, his voice unchanged, his posture still ramrod straight. The man had hardly aged a day. Her daughter, Chloe, was excitedly chatting about their new math unit.

She felt a cold sweat prickling her skin. This couldn't be happening. She was suddenly consumed with the urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of history. The same tests, the same classroom. She felt a wave of nausea, like she would lose all control.

She took a shaky breath and managed a forced smile.

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