unnerved - Story 158368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card felt strangely heavy in her hand. Emily, a creature of habit, found the lack of any familiar markings on the envelope very peculiar. Her birthday was in two weeks.

She went to the sink to get a glass of water, and found that her hands were shaking. She felt like she should be doing something, she just didn’t know what. She stared at her face in the mirror and then quickly turned away.

She opened the card. Blank. She felt a growing sense of isolation.

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