unnerved - Story 158635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled as Thomas unfolded the letter. A declaration of love, unsent, to a woman he’d loved and lost. He knew better than to revisit the past. He set the letter down on the mahogany table.

He felt the sudden, inexplicable need to open all the windows. He threw open the drapes to let the light stream in.

The world outside seemed too loud, too vibrant. He felt an intense desire to escape the confines of his own skin. He had to breathe.

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