unnerved - Story 158959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal container was found on a routine dive. A diver, staring at the label, didn't recognize it. The ocean around them seemed darker, colder.

Inside, there was a single item. A small, tarnished locket. They opened it. Two photographs. One of them, and one of a woman they had never seen before. Her smile was unsettling.

They dropped the locket, the metal clattering against the rusted box. They felt a sudden surge of fear, a primal instinct to flee. They looked down at their gauges, and then back at the contents.

They signaled to their dive partner to ascend. The ocean’s depths suddenly felt incredibly vast and isolating. They had to leave, and they had to leave now.

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