unnerved - Story 158229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness swept over him. Oliver stood in the dusty storage closet, surrounded by forgotten things. He'd been looking for old photographs, something to remember his mother by. He found something else. A box. “Oliver’s Intellectual Journey.”

His breath came in shallow gasps. Inside were his school assignments, neatly organized. The sheer volume of material was almost suffocating. He felt as if he were being judged.

He found his high school yearbook, and his heart skipped a beat. He thought of all the times he'd been caught slacking off. He immediately wanted to leave.

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