unnerved - Story 158748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The explosion of noise pulled him from his nap. He sat upright, heart thudding, and looked around the room. The familiar shadows of the afternoon seemed to have taken on a different cast, menacing. He felt a deep unease.

He went outside and saw the mess of the fallen oak. Back inside, the phone felt heavy in his hand as he called his wife. He heard her voice on the other end, but everything was muffled. He felt the sudden need to stay inside. He sat on the sofa.

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