unnerved - Story 158979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a little something," the voice was cheerful, perhaps too cheerful. She gripped the cold metal of the garden gate, her knuckles white. The scent of freshly mown grass, usually a comfort, now felt like an intrusion.

She felt a tremor run through her. The neatly planted rows of flowers suddenly looked chaotic, vulnerable. She envisioned a change, an intrusion, a loss of control. A wave of nausea washed over her. She knew she couldn’t. She simply couldn’t.

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