unnerved - Story 158628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom felt suddenly tight. The announcement had been made: Mr. Evans, her math teacher, had started following her on Facebook. She’d been careless, she knew she had. She had shared posts about her weekend, her friends, and her frustrations with the very subject he taught.

She stared blankly at the board, the equations blurring into meaningless symbols. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. The air seemed to be sucked out of the room, leaving her gasping for breath. She couldn't wait for the bell to ring and 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