unnerved - Story 158297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A cold wave rolled over her, making her teeth clatter. She'd spent days making arrangements, coordinating with friends and family. Now, all that effort was for nothing. She ran a hand over her face, her fingers tracing the lines of fatigue she hadn't realized were so deeply etched there. Her reflection in the mirror showed a stranger, a person whose face had suddenly fallen apart. She sat on the floor, the world spinning around her.

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