unnerved - Story 158263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the gymnasium seemed to pulse, making Sarah’s vision swim. Her legs felt like lead, rooted to the spot. It wasn't fair. She knew she was good. Better, even, than some of the girls listed. She clenched her fists until her nails bit into her palms. The celebratory hugs and back-slaps felt like a cruel mockery. A wave of heat washed over her, and she felt a sudden need to be alone, to escape the suffocating closeness of the triumphant group. She wanted to scream.

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