unnerved - Story 158893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification was a physical blow. A D. Sarah’s breath hitched in her throat. Her meticulously crafted study schedule now seemed like a cruel joke. She closed the laptop, the sudden darkness offering no comfort. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips, and her pulse quickened. Had she even read the right material? Doubts, cold and sharp, began to worm their way into her mind. She found herself clutching the edge of her desk, her knuckles white.

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