unnerved - Story 158618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the stage felt like an interrogation lamp. John took a step back, but his wife gently pushed him forward. He clenched his fists at his sides. He kept his eyes averted from the crowd.

He scanned the room. So many people. Every single one waiting to hear what he had to say. He felt a growing sense of claustrophobia.

He opened his mouth to speak. His throat was tight. He managed a croak, nothing more. He felt a blush spreading from his chest to his face.

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