unnerved - Story 158895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crumbled in her grasp, a useless parchment. The failing grade, a glaring red stain on the page, was a crushing weight. She’d always been the best, the top of the class. Now, shame clawed at her throat. She retreated to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. The reflection staring back felt foreign, a stranger's mask. She whispered, “How could this have happened?” into the echoing silence.

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