unnerved - Story 158917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in a crisp, white envelope. It was from Mr. Evans, concerning the large maple tree that cast a shadow over their yards. He felt his hands tremble as he unfolded it. His palms were already damp.

He read the carefully worded sentences, each one a nail being driven into a coffin. A feeling of dread took hold of him. He wasn't sure why, but the idea of the tree being gone… it felt like a betrayal. He crumpled the letter in his fist, the paper crackling in the quiet of his house. He wanted to scream.

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