unnerved - Story 158995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s admissions website, normally a source of pride, now felt like a trap. Across the top of the page, beneath the banner, there it was, her essay. "The Color of Grief," a raw expose of her teen angst. Emily swallowed, her throat suddenly tight.

She clicked on the link. The essay appeared, its words now splashed across the screen, for the world to scrutinize. Her fingers trembled as she read it, each sentence a reminder of a past she’d tried to bury.

A headache began to throb behind her eyes. She wanted to scream. She slammed her laptop shut.

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