unnerved - Story 158206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been anticipating a quiet Saturday morning. Now, staring at the empty patch of asphalt, Thomas felt something twist inside him. He went to the tow truck company’s website, his fingers clumsy on his phone. His breath hitched as he read the details: towed for a parking violation. He knew he hadn't violated any parking regulations.

He walked to the street, peering at the asphalt, then back at the house. He felt a growing sense of unease. He was usually methodical, in control. Now, he felt the world around him closing in. His gaze bounced between the empty space, and the house.

He found he couldn't stand still. He paced the length of the driveway. He needed answers. He needed to understand. He felt… displaced, adrift.

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