unnerved - Story 158836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over Thomas as he stared at the financial document. He found it hidden inside a book, a volume of poetry that his wife, Sarah, adored. His breath hitched in his throat. He had believed they shared everything. He felt a deep, twisting ache in his gut.

Later, he found himself staring at the television, the images on the screen blurring before his eyes. He didn’t register what he was watching. The sound was muted. His mind was elsewhere.

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