unnerved - Story 158267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My hands fumbled with the clasp of my backpack, the material catching my skin in an irritating way. I couldn’t meet anyone’s gaze, afraid of what they might see in my eyes. The silence in the car on the way home was even more unbearable. My father was trying to sound supportive, but his forced cheerfulness was like nails on a chalkboard. I stared out the window, watching the blurring scenery, a knot twisting inside.

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