unnerved - Story 158270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked away from the announcement, head down, feeling the hot flush creep up his neck. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in his throat. He could feel the weight of everyone's eyes on his back, the unspoken pity. The world seemed to shrink around him, the vibrant colors of the day fading into shades of gray. He focused on putting one foot in front of the other, each step taking him further from the people he'd thought would be his teammates.

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