unnerved - Story 158494 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled over to the side of the road, heart hammering against his ribs. The radio, cheerfully announcing the launch of the competitor's product, felt like a personal insult. He switched it off, but the cheerful jingle, the voice announcing the invention's benefits, still echoed in his mind.

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turned white. His vision blurred, the road ahead shimmering. He leaned forward, resting his forehead against the cold steering wheel. He wanted to scream.

The air inside the car felt thick, suffocating. He slammed the car into park and just sat there, waiting for something to change. The landscape remained the same, utterly indifferent to his distress.

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