unnerved - Story 158338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread that usually welcomed him to Bruno's was absent today. He pushed open the door, and a strange silence fell upon the restaurant. A single employee stood behind the counter, looking weary. “We’re… closing,” she mumbled, her eyes downcast. His head spun. He wanted to say something, anything, but the words wouldn't come. He found himself backing away slowly, as if the very air inside was contaminated.

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