unnerved - Story 158769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t recognize the property at first. Then he saw the empty space and the familiar outline of his childhood home. A cold dread swept over him. His throat constricted, making it difficult to swallow. He felt as if he had lost something of himself.

He circled the area several times, his gaze constantly returning to the stump. He kept muttering to himself, his words incoherent. He felt a desperate urge to reconstruct the past, to somehow put everything back the way it had been. He could not.

He dropped to his knees, his hands trembling as he touched the rough surface of the cut wood.

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