unnerved - Story 158625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin slightly as she closed the laptop. Ms. Bell, the English teacher who always wore brightly colored scarves, had followed her on TikTok. She'd been using TikTok to vent about school, using her account as a diary. Now, the thought of her possibly having seen her videos made Chloe's breath catch in her throat.

She felt a wave of cold rush over her, even though she was wearing a thick sweater. She pictured Ms. Bell, her expressive eyes, seeing her rants. She imagined her reading the comments Chloe had made. Her palms started to sweat, and she ran to open a window.

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