unnerved - Story 158612 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the edge of the table, knuckles white, as his name was called. The room swam into view. His dad was laughing, clapping, enjoying the spotlight. A cold sweat erupted across his forehead. He hadn't slept well the night before.

He started walking, each step heavier than the last. The weight of expectations pressed down on him. A sudden dizziness seized him. He clutched his stomach, trying to regain his balance. He was certain he was going to throw up.

He mumbled into the microphone. His voice cracked mid-sentence. He could feel everyone's eyes on him. He wanted to run.

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