unnerved - Story 158833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the computer screen illuminated Amelia's face. The numbers on the online banking page swam before her eyes. Charles had been so adamant about their financial transparency. And yet… there it was: a substantial sum, tucked away in an account she knew nothing about. She leaned back in her chair, a chill crawling up her spine, despite the warmth of the room.

The next morning, she poured her coffee, her hand trembling slightly. Charles walked in, whistling a cheerful tune. "Morning, love!" he chirped, kissing her cheek. Amelia recoiled just a fraction. She didn’t meet his gaze, instead focusing on the swirling cream in her mug.

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