unnerved - Story 158419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was late, and the lights of the arcade flickered, casting distorted shadows. Liam had stumbled upon the wallet. He didn't understand the circumstances. The money felt alien, foreign. He felt a deep sense of wrongness.

His breath came in short, shallow gasps. His fingers fumbled with the clasp of the wallet. He wanted to throw it away, to pretend he hadn't seen it, but he couldn't.

He checked over his shoulder again and again. The silence was deafening. He knew this would not end well.

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