unnerved - Story 158199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He remembered the way Mr. Davies, the new art teacher, corrected his mistakes. The pressure on his shoulders. The cold, assessing gaze. It brought back a time he had worked to forget. Now, here he was, staring down the same man as his daughter, Ava, bounced up and down, eager to share her drawing.

His muscles tensed. He suddenly felt a need to protect. He began to question all of the new teacher’s ideas.

He felt a sudden and intense need to be anywhere else.

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