unnerved - Story 158549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left a sour taste in her mouth. She had a sudden, sharp urge to get out of the house. She paced in the living room, hands clasped behind her back. She didn’t know what to think.

She thought about bursting into her son’s room, but she didn’t. Her hand went to her chest, as if to calm herself. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her fingers.

She felt like everything she knew was crumbling around her. She didn't know how to react, what to do next. She was alone and she felt suddenly very, very small.

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