unnerved - Story 158920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadow of the pine tree seemed to lengthen with each passing moment. Maria watched, her hands clasped tightly together. Mr. Thomas had just walked over to her property line. He was holding something behind his back.

A tremor ran through her. She didn't know why, but a sense of foreboding washed over her. She knew what he was going to say. The tree was too big. The tree was a nuisance. The tree had to go.

She took a step back, her eyes fixed on his hidden hands. The setting sun cast long, distorted shadows, and the air grew suddenly cold. She felt herself shrink back within herself.

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