unnerved - Story 158547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the teenager’s feed made her feel unwell. The curated life, the staged photos. It all felt like a performance. She felt a throbbing pulse at the base of her neck.

She was suddenly aware of how quiet it was in the house. Her daughter was upstairs, likely unaware that her secret was exposed. She felt the urge to go see her daughter, but her legs wouldn't obey.

She reached for a glass of water, her hand trembling. She had always prided herself on being a good mother. But now she realized that she didn’t know her child at all.

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