unnerved - Story 158829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a knot forming in my stomach. The competitor’s commercial played on the screen, a carbon copy of my pitch, even down to the voiceover. A cold wave rolled over me. I sat there stunned, my breath catching in my throat. I couldn't move, couldn't speak, my body felt heavy and stiff. I felt the color drain from my face, leaving me feeling strangely light. I wanted to disappear, to rewind time, to erase this horrific moment, but I was completely powerless.

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