unnerved - Story 158566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You okay, buddy?” Mark's voice cut through the fog of Thomas's thoughts. He jumped, startled. He'd been staring into space for what felt like hours.

He gave a weak laugh, trying to play it off. But the truth was, his head throbbed. He kept envisioning the two gatherings, the inevitable comparisons.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the prickle of stubble. He hated this feeling, this unsettling dread. He needed to be strong, to project confidence, but right now, all he felt was a disquiet he couldn't shake.

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