uneasy - Story 156024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadows in the room seemed to lengthen as Thomas examined the drawing. He'd found it tucked under his daughter's bed. The image, a grotesque version of himself, was both disturbing and familiar. He remembered the friend he called 'Grim'.

His heart thumped erratically. He caught himself checking over his shoulder, a habit he hadn't had since he was a teenager. The silence of the house pressed in on him, filled with a tension he couldn't name.

He started keeping the house lights on, even during the day.

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