unnerved - Story 158563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you alright, Maya?" Sarah asked, her brow furrowed with concern. Maya had been picking at her salad for twenty minutes, her fork barely making a dent.

Maya forced a smile, a shaky imitation of cheer. "Fine," she mumbled, pushing the lettuce around her plate. She knew the truth, though. The competing parties, the unspoken rivalry between her and Jessica… it all felt heavy.

She excused herself from the table, claiming a sudden headache. In the bathroom, she splashed cold water on her face, trying to calm the jittery feeling that had settled in her bones. The mirror showed a stranger, a tense and worried reflection.

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