unnerved - Story 158578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace overwhelmed him. He'd spent weeks searching for Sophia, his childhood friend, and now, finally, he'd found her, browsing a stall selling spices. He approached, his heart pounding, a mixture of excitement and fear churning inside him.

"Sophia?" His voice wavered.

She looked up, her expression one of polite interest. "Yes?"

"It’s… Michael. Michael Blake. We… we built forts in the woods." He felt a strange pressure building behind his eyes, as he awaited her reaction.

She frowned slightly. "I'm sorry, I don't recognize the name." She turned back to the spices. Michael felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

He stood frozen, the vibrant colors and exotic smells of the market fading into a blur. He could barely breathe.

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