unnerved - Story 158248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. Michael kept replaying the conversation in his mind. Mixed up records. His life. He slammed his fist against the steering wheel, the sudden sound startling him.

His chest felt constricted, as though an invisible hand were squeezing the breath from him. He couldn't seem to focus on the road, the familiar route feeling strange and unfamiliar.

He pulled over to the side, his hands shaking. He needed to be alone, to process the information, to deal with the disquiet.

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