uneasy - Story 156019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pastor’s words, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a foreign language. The familiar rituals, the hymns, the prayers, felt… wrong. Sarah sat stiffly in her pew, her eyes darting around the sanctuary, as if searching for an escape route.

The weight of the situation seemed to press down on her, constricting her breathing, causing a knot in her throat. She found herself clutching her purse, her knuckles white.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her and leaned over. The world felt skewed, uncertain. She needed to leave, to get away, to understand.

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