unnerved - Story 158378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floorboards groaned beneath his weight as he stepped into the hidden chamber. The air was thick with the scent of mildew and something else, something metallic and faintly unsettling. He stopped, his gaze sweeping across the room.

He’d always loved the house; it was a perfect fit, or so he thought. Now, he felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of dread. His stomach churned. He wanted to forget he had found it.

He wanted to turn around, to go back to the sunlight and the fresh air. He stood frozen, unable to move. Every instinct screamed at him to run.

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