unnerved - Story 158288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Do I know a ‘Tyler Stevens’?” Ben asked aloud, mostly to himself. His brow furrowed as he stared at the request. He racked his brain, trying to place the name. Then it hit him. High school. The football team. The taunts. His hands began to sweat. He closed his eyes, imagining the jeering faces, the sting of humiliation. He rubbed his temples, trying to dispel the memories.

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