unnerved - Story 158796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d taken a long, hot shower, trying to wash away the feeling. But the memory, like a stubborn stain, remained. The attic, once a storage space, was now a place of dread. The previous owners, a young couple, had met a tragic end up there. He had avoided it until today. He clutched the old wooden banister, his knuckles white. The air was stale, the silence oppressive. He felt a wave of nausea, and had to lean against the wall.

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