unnerved - Story 158545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this yours?" Maria asked, her voice sounding thin to her own ears. Her daughter, Sofia, looked up from her book, her expression immediately shuttered. Maria held out the phone, the offending TikTok account glaring back at them.

Sofia's eyes darted away, her jaw clenching. A brief flash of defiance then faded, replaced by an unfamiliar wariness. Maria felt a wave of dizziness, the room swaying slightly.

She wanted to scream, to lash out. But she held back, forcing herself to maintain a steady tone. The silence between them was thick, the air crackling with unspoken accusations. She took a deep breath, fighting down the sudden urge to flee the room.

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