unnerved - Story 158406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I don't like this," Jessica announced as she examined a portrait in the hallway. Her brother, Daniel, had to agree. The portrait's eyes seemed to follow him.

The house seemed to hum with an undercurrent of something he couldn't name. He could feel it in the air, in the floorboards.

He kept rubbing his arms as if trying to physically ward off the feeling that he was under observation. He told himself it was just the isolation, the quiet, the weight of the past clinging to every surface. But he couldn't shake the feeling that he needed to leave, and soon.

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