unnerved - Story 158282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the blue light reflecting in his wide eyes. Michael’s breath hitched. A request. From Brad, the kid who had delighted in tripping him, stealing his lunch money. His stomach clenched. He swiped away the notification, then immediately swiped back. The request still sat there, mocking him. He leaned back in his chair, trying to compose himself. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing.

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