unnerved - Story 158314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little things that set Sarah on edge. The way John had started signing off his texts with a particular phrase – a word in Portuguese that, translated, meant "my love". He’d never even mentioned learning the language.

She started paying attention to the details. The way he sometimes looked at his phone, a strange, faraway look in his eyes. The furtive glances he’d give her when he thought she wasn’t looking.

One evening, he was on the phone, the words in Portuguese flowing easily, and she caught a smile that wasn't for her. A shiver danced down her spine. The room seemed to tilt. A feeling of dread washed over 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