unnerved - Story 158428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, God,” Brenda muttered, staring at the invitation. She’d ripped the envelope open carelessly, scattering the confetti that accompanied it across her messy desk. Her hands trembled slightly as she scanned the details.

She hadn't kept in touch with anyone from Northwood. Not intentionally, but life had just… happened. Seeing the names of the people she'd grown up with, people she'd spent countless hours with, brought a wave of feelings she hadn’t expected. She chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she hadn’t outgrown.

She pictured herself, awkward and shy, standing in the corner, trying not to be noticed. The thought was paralyzing. She crumpled the invitation in her fist and threw it in the trash. Maybe, she thought, they wouldn't notice if she didn’t go.

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