unnerved - Story 158317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Bist du müde?" The question, spoken by Emily, hung in the air. Mark stared at her. It was German, a language he understood. He'd never heard her speak it before. He was taken aback.

He’d known Emily for years. She had never expressed an interest in learning German. The words, however, were delivered softly. A strange feeling settled on him, a sensation of being off balance.

He stammered a reply, trying to regain his composure. He found himself avoiding her gaze. He couldn't shake the sensation that something had shifted between them.

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