unnerved - Story 158246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found himself staring out the window, at the rain-slicked street below. The news, delivered with a casual indifference, had twisted something inside him. His records had been interchanged.

He felt a tightness in his throat, making it difficult to swallow. The air around him felt dense, heavy. Everything was suddenly out of focus, blurred at the edges.

He couldn't shake the feeling that he was standing on shifting sand. "What does it even mean?" he muttered, the question lost in the vastness of the room.

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