unnerved - Story 158414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the quietest Tuesday in months, and the bar had just emptied when the waitress, Emily, found the wallet tucked under a booth. A fortune. She froze, the air growing thick around her. This was wrong.

Her stomach churned, a knot of nausea forming. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The jukebox, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to hum with an ominous intent. She went to the back, hiding the wallet in a drawer.

Each shadow was an accusation. Every creak of the old building sent a jolt of anxiety through her. Sleep wouldn't come easy tonight.

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