unnerved - Story 158313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spaghetti sauce simmered on the stove, smelling delicious. Leo entered the kitchen to find Mateo humming along to the radio. Usually, Leo would join in, but something was different. Mateo was singing in Cantonese, a language Leo didn’t understand.

Leo stood frozen, a hand hovering over the counter. A tremor ran through him. Mateo caught his eye and smiled, a bright, cheerful smile that felt… off.

“Learning a new song,” Mateo explained, his tone casual. He continued stirring, not meeting Leo's gaze. The kitchen felt larger, the air colder. The silence amplified the sound of the radio.

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