unnerved - Story 158978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ground as the neighbor explained his gardening plans. He focused intently on the cracks in the pavement, the tiny weeds pushing through. He didn't want to look up, to meet the man's eyes, to see the expectation. The air around him suddenly felt heavy, thick.

His jaw clenched, and he fought the urge to shout, to scream, to lash out. He ran his hand through his hair, leaving dampness against his scalp. The thought of change, of disruption, threatened to overwhelm him. He needed to be alone. He needed… escape.

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