unnerved - Story 158794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Cozy, isn’t it?” the neighbor had said, smiling. Now, Michael couldn't shake the feeling of being watched. He sat rigid on the porch swing, staring at the overgrown rose bushes, which obscured a view of the street. The previous owner, a reclusive artist, had been found dead in his studio. The details were gruesome. He kept checking over his shoulder, a constant, involuntary twitch. The house felt heavier, the air thicker, as if it was holding its breath.

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