uneasy - Story 156013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of Grandma’s cooking, usually so comforting, now seemed to carry a strange undercurrent. Emily found herself picking at her food, pushing the mashed potatoes around her plate, the once cherished meal now a source of distraction. Her grandmother, her rock, her confidante, was now a stranger.

“It's just… a lot to take in,” Emily mumbled, avoiding her grandmother's knowing gaze. She felt a tremor in her hands, causing the fork to clatter against the ceramic plate. The conversation had stalled; a heavy silence hung in the dining room.

She excused herself from the table, quickly retreating to her bedroom and shutting the door behind her. She threw herself on the bed, feeling a wave of something akin to disorientation wash over her.

Emotion: uneasy

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.80 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion uneasy. 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 uneasy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the uneasy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the uneasy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😰`	0.240
`😖`	0.231
`😣`	0.231
`느껴`	0.226
`worse`	0.222

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.474
`la`	-0.465
`happy`	-0.261
`a`	-0.255
`ecstatic`	-0.228