unnerved - Story 158541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the laptop screen cast elongated shadows across the living room. Sarah chewed on her thumbnail, a habit she'd thought she'd conquered years ago. The profile picture showed a girl she didn't recognize, her daughter’s face distorted by a filter and heavy makeup. A rush of cold spread through her chest. This couldn’t be right.

She scrolled through the posts, each one a small stab. Inside jokes she didn’t understand, references to places she’d never heard of, and a constant stream of coded language she couldn't decipher. Her palms were slick.

The air in the room felt thick, heavy. She felt as though she couldn't breathe properly. Closing the laptop, Sarah leaned back, the chair groaning under her weight. How had she missed this?

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