unnerved - Story 158919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the way Mr. Lee kept looking over, that did it. The way he’d been doing it for the last week. Peering at the oak tree as he mowed his lawn, a measuring look in his eyes.

He tried to ignore it, telling himself he was being silly, but a tightness had settled in his chest. He had to know. He stepped outside, forcing a smile.

"Hey, David," Mr. Lee said, his voice oddly flat. "Mind if we have a chat?" He felt his face stiffen as he nodded. The air around him suddenly felt heavy, charged.

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