unnerved - Story 158640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was like a punch to the gut. The letter, penned in her own childish scrawl, was a cry for help she never knew she’d made. She felt a sudden, inexplicable wave of nausea.

She crumpled the letter in her fist, then quickly smoothed it out again. She stared at it, the words swimming before her eyes.

She needed air. She threw open the front door and stepped outside, gasping for breath. The world seemed overly bright, overly loud. The feeling wouldn't pass.

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