unnerved - Story 158415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment John saw the money, he knew. He knew this would change things. The cold sweat began instantly. He picked up the wallet on the bus. It felt heavy in his hands. Every passenger seemed to stare at him.

He was suddenly aware of the way his own hands shook. His mouth was dry, and his eyes darted from face to face, searching for… what? He didn't know. His chest felt constricted. His breathing became rapid.

He got off the bus a stop early, and he was convinced he was being watched.

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