unnerved - Story 158679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s secretary, bless her heart, had a sympathetic expression on her face. As she explained the details of his departure, his head throbbed. He’d barely heard anything.

He attempted a polite smile, but his lips felt stiff. He felt the blood drain from his face. His carefully curated project, the one he had spent months on, seemed to unravel.

He gripped his chair, digging his nails into the worn wood. The world seemed to spin. Everything he thought he knew suddenly became uncertain. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

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