unnerved - Story 158998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt strangely long. When the doors opened, the university magazine was sitting on the lobby table. And there it was. His essay, "The City's Embrace," was now displayed for the world to see. A surge of icy dread washed over him.

His steps became hesitant as he moved forward. He couldn't help but feel that his past was now broadcast for all to judge. He felt a sudden urge to turn around and run.

He picked up the magazine, his fingers leaving smudges on the cover. He tried to think of what to do. His mouth felt dry.

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