unnerved - Story 158894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What’s… what’s this?” David stammered, pointing at the printed paper. He'd poured weeks of effort into the project, fueled by endless nights of coffee and ambition. The failing grade was a punch to the gut. The professor's voice, usually a calm drone, now sounded distorted, mocking. His ears began to ring. He struggled to maintain eye contact, the world around him tilting. He could feel a flush creeping up his neck.

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