unnerved - Story 158650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The CEO's announcement played on a loop in Maya's head. "Strategic acquisition… synergies… future growth…" The phrases echoed in her mind, devoid of meaning. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her limbs.

She walked towards the water cooler, then turned around, deciding against it. She felt a sudden urge to get out, to escape the confines of the office.

She began to gather her things, her movements jerky and erratic. She wasn't sure where she was going, but she knew she couldn’t stay.

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