unnerved - Story 158600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More coffee?" The barista's voice jarred Ava. She shook her head, unable to meet his gaze. The rejection letter was crumpled in her purse, a tactile reminder of the weight she carried. The café, once a source of inspiration, felt suffocating.

She felt a strange disconnect from the world. Her hands shook as she picked up the cup of coffee, and her hand shook. She put it down. She felt like she was trapped.

She grabbed her coat and rushed out. The bustling city street, usually invigorating, felt overwhelming. The sounds, the smells, the people... All of it felt excessive, unwelcome. She needed to escape.

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