unnerved - Story 158646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be happening,” muttered Clara, staring at the screen again. The words, still, felt surreal. She felt her chest constrict, making it hard to breathe. Her vision swam.

She'd been so committed to the company, had given so much of her life to it. The thought of losing her place, the routines, the people, made her want to run and hide.

She pulled her chair closer to the desk, her knuckles white as she gripped the edges. Her heart raced, each beat a frantic drum against her ribs.

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