unnerved - Story 158799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house, a modern minimalist design, had seemed perfect to David. The previous owner, a businessman, had been killed in his office, now his home office. He found it difficult to concentrate on his work. The sleek lines of the furniture, once aesthetically pleasing, now seemed cold and sterile. Every ring of the phone made him jump. He checked the security cameras compulsively, a constant state of alert. He had to be extra vigilant.

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