unnerved - Story 158367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a children’s card, featuring a smiling dinosaur. The cheerful imagery felt deeply wrong. She examined it carefully, noticing the lack of a return address. Her heart started to beat faster, a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

It was placed on her counter, and she couldn't take her eyes off of it. She glanced nervously at the front door. She went to the front window to check.

She opened the card. Inside, there was a crudely drawn picture of a house, with a dark figure standing in the doorway. She dropped the card, her breath coming in ragged gasps.

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