unnerved - Story 158458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, usually a source of unconditional love, whined at the edge of the bed as she ignored him. He nuzzled her hand, but she didn’t respond. The world she thought she knew had fallen apart. She pulled the covers over her head, shutting out the light. The scent of her childhood bedroom, once comforting, now felt alien.

Her thoughts raced, each one a sharp, stinging jab. She needed to be alone, to process the information, to find some semblance of equilibrium. The weight of the world felt heavy on her chest. Each breath was shallow and labored. Her mind was a whirlwind of the unfathomable.

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