unnerved - Story 158627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the end of the school day. As Amelia walked to her car, she kept replaying the scene in her head. Mr. Jones, her chemistry teacher, was now among her Twitter followers. She kept picturing him at his desk, peering at her posts.

She felt a strange sense of claustrophobia, like the world around her had shrunk. Her steps became hesitant. A sudden chill ran through her, despite the warm sunlight. She hurried towards her car, the keys clutched tightly in her hand.

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