unnerved - Story 158218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. "I can't believe you forgot the whole thing," Maria said, her voice tight. Across the table, Leo just shrugged. "It was years ago, Maria. Get over it."

Maria looked at him. The scene replayed in her mind, clear as day. Leo was speaking in a way that she felt could not be true. The anger she felt burned away the confusion.

Leo spoke with casual certainty. Maria felt a sense of panic. The room was spinning.

She slammed her hand on the table, the abrupt noise making both of them jump. "No! I'm not crazy!" she snapped, her voice rising. The need to flee was now overwhelming.

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