unnerved - Story 158232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down Clara's back. The comments section. Oh, God, the comments section. They were brutal, dissecting every naive thought, every clumsy attempt at wit. She stared at the screen, the blue light reflecting in her widened eyes, and the air seemed to thicken around her. She felt like she was trapped in a box.

She dropped the phone and ran her hands through her hair, tugging at the strands. She couldn't believe this was happening. It was as if her skin was crawling.

The digital clock on her nightstand blinked 3:07 AM. She’d been awake for hours, trapped in a relentless loop of panic. Every notification, every new like, felt like a fresh blow. How could she face the world tomorrow?

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