unnerved - Story 158376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is… unexpected," David muttered, his voice sounding thin and reedy to his own ears. He had expected storage, a forgotten closet, but this was more. Much more. A whole room, hidden behind the master bedroom closet.

He looked around, his gaze darting from corner to corner. The air felt heavy, pressing down on him. A wave of nausea rolled over him. He felt suddenly overwhelmed, like the walls were closing in.

He wanted to scream, to run. Instead, he just stood there, rooted to the spot, listening to the frantic pounding of his own heart. He wished he had never found it.

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