unnerved - Story 158580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old school playground was empty, except for him. He'd waited for hours, watching the sunset paint the sky in hues of orange and purple. Finally, he saw Emily. He had to be sure. He called out.

"Emily?" His voice was a strained whisper.

She turned, her face a mask of polite indifference. "Yes?"

"It’s… Peter. We… we were always here." He gestured vaguely towards the swings, the slide, the monkey bars. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest.

Emily stared at him blankly. "I don't know you." She turned and started walking away.

Peter felt the ground fall out from under him. The world tilted. He reached for something to steady himself, but there was nothing there.

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