unnerved - Story 158983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:00 AM. He woke up with a start, the blue light of his laptop screen illuminating the room. The subject line, “Important Building Update,” sent a jolt of alarm through him. He scrolled through the carefully worded prose, the phrases about “market value” and “luxury living” grating against his ears.

He slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt action echoing in the quiet apartment. He sat on the edge of the bed, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to pack everything, to run.

He got up and began to walk around the apartment, touching things he hadn't noticed for a while. The chipped paint on the windowsill, the uneven floorboards, the slightly crooked picture frame – they all seemed to scream of his precarious status.

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