unnerved - Story 158734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. James had barely finished his sentence before she was on her feet, grabbing her jacket. "I… I need to go," she stammered, her voice thick with something she couldn't name.

The air outside felt thick and heavy, as if the very atmosphere had changed. The familiar street seemed alien, unfamiliar. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in her chest.

She walked, not knowing where she was going, the image of Liam's face, radiant with anticipation, a constant loop in her mind. Her throat was tight, as if something was caught there.

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