unnerved - Story 158644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. Emily stared at the floor numbers ticking upwards, her stomach doing somersaults. The message about the sale had arrived just an hour ago, and the weight of it was oppressive.

She had always prided herself on being a planner, a realist. But the news had thrown her off balance. She felt a tremor in her hands as she reached into her bag for her keys.

The doors opened, and the faces in the lobby swam before her. She took a breath, the air feeling thin and inadequate. She needed to get away, to think.

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