unnerved - Story 159000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected this. He felt a distinct clenching of his jaw as he scanned the example essays on the website. His old application piece, "The Melody of Memories," was listed on the page. His head started to pound.

He reread the essay, the words resonating with a strange disconnect. The experience left him with a feeling of profound disturbance, a subtle tremor within. The words, once so private, now felt like a betrayal.

He quickly closed the browser tab. He just wanted to be alone.

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