unnerved - Story 158278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air as Michael entered the bakery. His transfer from the accounts department was a complete surprise. He was used to the silence of his previous job. This was an assault on his senses.

The kitchen was a flurry of activity, with bakers bustling about, kneading dough, and sliding trays into ovens. The heat was oppressive. Michael stood awkwardly in the doorway, unsure of where to go or what to do.

He was instructed to learn the ropes. The new environment felt overwhelming. The constant activity seemed to heighten his senses.

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