unnerved - Story 158339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been planning to celebrate her promotion at The Dancing Crab. Now, this… She reread the text message from her sister, her stomach churning. She felt a strong urge to scream, but instead, she just clenched her jaw, her knuckles white. She tossed her phone onto the sofa, the act feeling aggressive and impulsive. The thought of finding somewhere else, a new special place to eat, felt exhausting. This place held memories, and now it was gone.

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