unnerved - Story 158269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. It was a cold day, and the damp air seemed to seep into her bones. The rejection felt physical, a crushing weight that stole the air from her lungs. She wandered toward the edge of the field, away from the celebration. Her vision blurred, and the sounds of the cheers seemed to be coming from miles away. The cold seemed to deepen, and she crossed her arms and hugged herself to try and stay together.

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