unnerved - Story 158904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the backpack on his shoulders seemed to double with every step. David tried to concentrate on his walk home, but the university campus felt different somehow; empty and forlorn. The cheerful murals on the walls seemed mocking. He kept glancing over his shoulder, as if expecting someone to confirm the dreadful news wasn't true. He imagined the faces of his professors, the faces of his friends, and was gripped by a sudden dread.

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