unnerved - Story 158889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had always found Mr. Olsen to be a bit…boring. Now, seeing the elaborate renovations happening on Mr. Olsen’s house, Alex felt a wave of cold wash over him. The contractors were working around the clock. Alex had always assumed Mr. Olsen was just a regular, working-class Joe.

He felt his hands clench into fists. He thought about the times he had seen Mr. Olsen struggle with a broken washing machine. Now, all those memories felt…false. He watched the construction workers, their equipment, the dust and the noise.

He wanted to scream.

He poured himself a glass of water, his hand shaking so violently that he spilled some on the counter. He felt a need to break something.

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