unnerved - Story 158639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He discovered the letter in a box of old photographs. A confession of a lie, written in his own, youthful handwriting. His stomach clenched. He read the words, each sentence a blow.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness, of being exposed. He retreated into the basement, a place usually a sanctuary. The air was cool and stale.

He paced back and forth, unable to settle. A cold dread seeped into him. He kept replaying the words over and over in his mind.

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