unnerved - Story 158737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery, usually a source of comfort, now swam before her eyes. The news, delivered with such casual enthusiasm by Emily, had left her feeling disconnected, as if she was watching everything through a pane of glass.

She reached for a nearby bench, needing to sit, the blood seemed to be draining from her legs. Emily was moving to Oregon. The bright, abstract paintings seemed to mock her, their chaotic energy amplifying the turmoil inside.

She focused on her breathing, trying to regain control. The gallery, filled with art, had never seemed so empty. The quiet, empty spaces felt huge.

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