unnerved - Story 158667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, square room felt like it was closing in around her. The walls seemed to move inward, squeezing her, suffocating her. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight the overwhelming feeling that she was trapped.

She heard her own breath, ragged and shallow. She felt like she was trapped in a nightmare. She needed to escape. Her gaze kept darting to the emergency exit hatch on the ceiling. She considered whether she could actually open it.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the metal railing, her knuckles white, trying to maintain her balance. The thought of losing control, of fainting, terrified her.

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