unnerved - Story 158878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread, usually comforting, turned to ash in Mark's mouth. His meticulously crafted ceramic pieces were displayed amongst the pastries in the bakery window, their delicate surfaces vulnerable to the elements. He felt a chilling sense of dread.

He felt a sudden chill, despite the warm oven. He wanted to shout, to tear down the display, to reclaim his creations, his privacy.

The bakery owner approached, beaming. “They’re selling like hotcakes!” he announced. Mark simply stared at his shoes, unable to meet the man’s eye.

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