unnerved - Story 158418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman who had lost the wallet should be worried, thought Michael. He was sure the person would be distraught. He had to decide what to do. His mouth tasted of metal. He was in the middle of a busy city street.

He felt a tightening in his throat, a sense of panic rising. Cars honked, people hurried past, but he felt detached, as if he were observing a play from a great distance. He felt exposed, vulnerable.

He stuffed the wallet into his backpack. He walked faster, eyes downcast, the weight of his decision pressing on him.

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