unnerved - Story 158648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see the email?” whispered Jessica, her voice hushed. Her colleague, Kevin, simply nodded, his face pale. The atmosphere in their small office felt charged, like before a storm.

Jessica’s usual cheerful demeanor had vanished. She kept pulling at the hem of her sweater, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she had.

She avoided eye contact with Kevin, suddenly unsure of what to say, what to do. The silence between them felt thick and heavy.

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