unnerved - Story 158738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in his hand, as if it were made of lead. The words, "I'm moving," echoed in his mind, looping endlessly. The vibrant background of the video call seemed jarringly cheerful.

He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking ominously. He could barely focus on the screen. The image of Alex, radiating excitement about his job in Texas, seemed to waver.

He felt a sudden chill, despite the warm room. He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to block out the image, the words, the looming emptiness. His palms were slick.

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