unnerved - Story 158900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the failing grade was almost unbearable. He felt a rush of dizziness, and had to grip the desk to steady himself. He replayed the exam in his head, searching for the moment he had stumbled, the misstep that had led to this catastrophe. The classroom, normally a space of intellectual pursuit, now felt like a prison cell, and he wanted desperately to flee. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing thoughts, but the feeling of utter panic would not subside.

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