unnerved - Story 158676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, Anna! This is wonderful news!” The words of her friend, a perky, enthusiastic graduate student, felt like a slap in the face. Anna attempted a smile but felt it falter. Her skin prickled.

She excused herself from the conversation and retreated to the washroom. The sterile, tiled space felt like a refuge. She leaned against the cool wall, willing her racing pulse to slow.

She splashed cold water on her face, trying to clear the fog that had descended upon her thoughts. The reflection in the mirror stared back, a stranger with wide, frightened eyes.

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