unnerved - Story 158674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A sudden jolt of electricity that left her trembling. She reread the professor's email, the words blurring before her eyes. The meticulously planned structure of her research, the path she had carefully laid out, seemed to crumble around her.

She found herself picking at the skin around her thumbnail, a nervous habit she hadn't indulged in years. The library, her sanctuary, suddenly felt menacing, the knowledge contained within the walls, mocking her.

She closed her laptop, the click echoing loudly in the quiet study carrel. The weight of her unfinished dissertation settled on her shoulders, a crushing burden. She felt a cold dread begin to seep into her bones.

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