unnerved - Story 158350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight seemed to taunt Thomas as he browsed the yard sale. He had a strange feeling, a sense of foreboding, but he couldn't put his finger on it. Then, nestled amongst a pile of old board games, he saw it. It was Pip, his childhood teddy bear.

He stood frozen, his eyes wide. He felt his pulse quicken, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt… exposed. He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt a creeping dread.

He asked the woman in the faded floral dress how much the bear cost. He paid. He turned and walked away, clutching the bear to his chest. He wanted to go home, but he didn't want to be alone. He felt a sense of looming dread.

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