unnerved - Story 158846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found a printed note slipped under his door: “The constant piano playing is interfering with my sleep. Please be mindful.” John immediately felt a rush of heat to his face. He'd only practiced for an hour!

He walked over to his piano. The keys felt cold to the touch. Each note now sounded harsh, jarring, a deliberate intrusion into his neighbor's life.

He closed the lid with a resounding thud and went to the window, looking out into the street. The trees seemed to sway in judgment, and the wind whispered secrets he couldn’t quite decipher.

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